ISBN validator¶

This module provides basic API for validation of the ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 numbers. It can also compute the checksum digits for incomplete numbers.

Examples¶

>>> import isbn_validator

ISBN validation:

>>> isbn_validator.is_valid_isbn("80-85892-15-4")
True
>>> isbn_validator.is_valid_isbn("978-80-86056-31-9")
True
>>> isbn_validator.is_valid_isbn("978-80-904248-2-77777")
False

Or just specific ISBN standard:

>>> isbn_validator.is_isbn10_valid("80-85892-15-4")
True
>>> isbn_validator.is_isbn13_valid("978-80-86056-31-9")
True

You can also let the module to compute the checksum digit:

>>> isbn_validator.get_isbn10_checksum("80-86056-31")
7
>>> isbn_validator.get_isbn13_checksum("978-80-904248-2")
1

API¶

ISBN validation module

Source code¶

This project is released as opensource (MIT) and source codes can be found at GitHub:

https://github.com/edeposit/isbn_validator

Installation¶

Module is hosted at PYPI, and can be easily installed using PIP:

sudo pip install isbn_validator

Testing¶

Almost every feature of the project is tested in unit/integration tests. You can run this tests using provided run_tests.sh script, which can be found in the root of the project.

Requirements¶

This script expects that pytest is installed. In case you don’t have it yet, it can be easily installed using following command:

pip install --user pytest

or for all users:

sudo pip install pytest

Example¶

$ ./run_tests.sh
============================= test session starts ==============================
platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.6 -- py-1.4.26 -- pytest-2.6.4
collected 6 items

tests/test_isbn_validator.py ......

=========================== 6 passed in 0.02 seconds ===========================