num2words library - Convert numbers to words in multiple languages

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num2words is a library that converts numbers like 42 to words like forty-two. It supports multiple languages (see the list below for full list of languages) and can even generate ordinal numbers like forty-second (although this last feature is a bit buggy for some languages at the moment).

The project is hosted on GitHub_. Contributions are welcome.

.. _GitHub: https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/num2words

Installation

The easiest way to install num2words is to use pip::

pip install num2words

Otherwise, you can download the source package and then execute::

python setup.py install

The test suite in this library is new, so it's rather thin, but it can be run with::

python setup.py test

To run the full CI test suite which includes linting and multiple python environments::

pip install tox
tox

Usage

Command line::

$ num2words 10001
ten thousand and one
$ num2words 24,120.10
twenty-four thousand, one hundred and twenty point one
$ num2words 24,120.10 -l es
veinticuatro mil ciento veinte punto uno
$num2words 2.14 -l es --to currency
dos euros con catorce céntimos

In code there's only one function to use::

>>> from num2words import num2words
>>> num2words(42)
forty-two
>>> num2words(42, to='ordinal')
forty-second
>>> num2words(42, lang='fr')
quarante-deux

Besides the numerical argument, there are two main optional arguments, to: and lang:

to: The converter to use. Supported values are:

• cardinal (default)
• ordinal
• ordinal_num
• year
• currency

lang: The language in which to convert the number. Supported values are:

• en (English, default)
• am (Amharic)
• ar (Arabic)
• az (Azerbaijani)
• by (Belarusian)
• cz (Czech)
• de (German)
• dk (Danish)
• en_GB (English - Great Britain)
• en_IN (English - India)
• en_NG (English - Nigeria)
• es (Spanish)
• es_CO (Spanish - Colombia)
• es_VE (Spanish - Venezuela)
• es_GT (Spanish - Guatemala)
• eu (EURO)
• fa (Farsi)
• fi (Finnish)
• fr (French)
• fr_CH (French - Switzerland)
• fr_BE (French - Belgium)
• fr_DZ (French - Algeria)
• he (Hebrew)
• hu (Hungarian)
• id (Indonesian)
• is (Icelandic)
• it (Italian)
• ja (Japanese)
• kn (Kannada)
• ko (Korean)
• kz (Kazakh)
• lt (Lithuanian)
• lv (Latvian)
• no (Norwegian)
• pl (Polish)
• pt (Portuguese)
• pt_BR (Portuguese - Brazilian)
• sl (Slovene)
• sr (Serbian)
• sv (Swedish)
• ro (Romanian)
• ru (Russian)
• te (Telugu)
• tg (Tajik)
• tr (Turkish)
• th (Thai)
• vi (Vietnamese)
• nl (Dutch)
• uk (Ukrainian)

You can supply values like fr_FR; if the country doesn't exist but the language does, the code will fall back to the base language (i.e. fr). If you supply an unsupported language, NotImplementedError is raised. Therefore, if you want to call num2words with a fallback, you can do::

try:
    return num2words(42, lang=mylang)
except NotImplementedError:
    return num2words(42, lang='en')

Additionally, some converters and languages support other optional arguments that are needed to make the converter useful in practice.

Wiki

For additional information on some localization please check the Wiki_. And feel free to propose wiki enhancement.

.. _Wiki: https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/num2words/wiki

History

num2words is based on an old library, pynum2word, created by Taro Ogawa in 2003. Unfortunately, the library stopped being maintained and the author can't be reached. There was another developer, Marius Grigaitis, who in 2011 added Lithuanian support, but didn't take over maintenance of the project.

I am thus basing myself on Marius Grigaitis' improvements and re-publishing pynum2word as num2words.

Virgil Dupras, Savoir-faire Linux

Changelog

Version 0.5.13 -- 2023/10/18

• Fix a problem in Brazilian Portuguese code referred to thousands when the hundreds are exact. (#421)
• Fix issue with the hundreds of millions, billions, ... when the hundreds of those are exact. (#436)
• Fix negative number problem (#477)
• Fix lang_DK issues (#366)
• Norwegian uplift (#484)
• BYN to EU and RU (#439)
• Change python3.6 to python3.11 because deprecation in ubuntu 22.04 (#494)
• Add support for Azerbaijani language (#495)
• Add Icelandic (#380)
• Hebrew long-form spelling, gender, ordinals, fractions, maxval=1e66, construct forms (#490)
• Fix 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 issue (#505)
• Added support for the Nigerian Naira (#507)
• Fix several issues with num2words in Arabic (#512)
• Guatemalan currency support (#510)
• Fix #508: Handle string inputs in Italian to_ordinal (#518)
• Add Slovak language support (#533)
• Add gender and morphological cases support for Ukrainian (#530)
• Adding genders for Russian language (#503)
• Lang By Added (#506)
• Add Saudi Riyal to english (#531)

Version 0.5.12 -- 2022/08/19

• Support Japanese Reiwa (令和/れいわ) era. (#412)
• Add basic farsi support (#354)
• Added Tajik language support (#406)
• Fix Amharic language support (#465)
• Fix Hebrew pluralize and implement to_currency (#330)
• Add support to translate some currencies in italian language (#434)
• Fix Polish twenties (#345)
• Add uzs for ru and en (#422)
• Added support for Esperanto numbers. (#387)
• [ADD] to ordinal number for Turkish (#468)
• Fix zeroth in Dutch to nulde fixing (#326)

Version 0.5.11 -- 2022/08/03

• Add KZT and UAH currencies to lang RU (#264)
• Add es_NI currency (#276)
• Update .gitignore to add .eggs/ directory (#280)
• Fix Hebrew support (#289)
• Update test_tr.py to increase coverage (#298)
• Add ordinal 12,345 to ES test suite to increase coverage (#287)
• Add simple tests for lang_DK.py (#286)
• Add testcase for lang_EN.py (#288)
• Add more tests to base.py (#283)
• Fixed misspelling of 21 (cardinal and ordinal number) in IT language (#270)
• Romanian issues 259 (#260)
• Adding Language Support for Telugu / Bug Fix in Kannada (#263)
• Add support of Kazakh language (KZ) (#306)
• Update README.rst (#307)
• Added support for Hungarian language (#310)
• [UPD] Readme file (#363)
• [ADD] num2words: add traslation to spanish of several currencies (#356)
• added swedish language including test cases (#352)
• Remove dupplicated line in lang_PT_BR (#355)
• Fix ordinal_num output for Dutch (NL) (#369)
• Polishordinals (#367)
• [tr] return Turkish 0 ordinal and cardinal (#347)
• Improve Ukrainian support and minor fixes in CZ, KZ, LT, LV, PL, RU, SR languages (#400)
• feat: ci: replace travis by github workflows (#448)
• [ES] Added missing accents ("dieciséis", "dólar", "dólares", "veintiún"), improved currency gender handling, fixed pound cent names (#443)

Version 0.5.10 -- 2019/05/12

• Add Kannada language localization (#243)
• Revert some copyrights changed by mistake (#254)
• Add indian rupee to the supported currencies (#248)
• Improve currency functions for German and French (#247)
• Improve Slovene localization (#246)
• Improve Spanish localization (#240)
• Fix typo 'seperator' on source code (#238)
• Convert string to decimal values (#223)
• Improve German localization and test coverage (#237)
• Improve Polish localization (#233)
• Fix ordinal number for French ending on 1 (#236)

Version 0.5.9 -- 2019/01/10

• Fix encoding issue on release 0.5.8 (#229)
• Improve Polish localization (#228)

Version 0.5.8 -- 2018/11/17

• Add Portuguese (Portugal) localization (#198)
• Add a command line tool to use num2words
• Use language iso code for Vietnamese
• Improve Korean localization (#219)
• Improve Serbian (Latin) localization (#207)
• Improve testing setup (#220)
• Improve German localization (#214) (#222)
• Improve Romanian localization (#215)
• Improve Spanish localization (#187) (#200)
• Improve Russian localization (#211) (#212)
• Improve French localization (23902ab)
• Improve Arabic localization (#176)
• Improve Lithuanian and Latvian localization (#185)
• Improve Ukrainian localization (#183)

Version 0.5.7 -- 2018/06/27

• Add Finnish localization. (#170)
• Add Japanese localization. (#171)
• Add belgian-french localization. (#151)
• Add Czech localization. (#154)
• Add Thai localization. (#139)
• Improve English localization. (#144)
• Improve Spanish localization. (#167)
• Improve Italian localization. (#143)
• Improve documentation. (#155, #145, #174)

Version 0.5.6 -- 2017/11/22

• Refactor to_currency (#135)
• Allow the use of other convertes to_currency, to_year (#95)
• Fix code to respect PEP8 (#98, #105)
• Add Slovene localization (#97)
• Add Ukrainian localization (#93)
• Add Dutch localization (#91)
• Add Algeria-French localization (#86)
• Add Turkish localization (#85)

Version 0.5.5 -- 2017/07/02

• Add Arabic localization (#72)
• Add Spanish-Colombian and Spanish-Venezuelan localization (#67)
• Add VietNam localization (#61)
• Add Italian localization (#56, #59)
• Improve Russian localization (#62)
• Improve Polish localization (#58)

Version 0.5.4 -- 2016/10/18

• Tons of new languages!
• Add Polish localization. (#23)
• Add Swiss-French localization. (#38)
• Add Russian localization. (#28, #46, #48)
• Add Indonesian localization. (#29)
• Add Norwegian localization. (#33)
• Add Danish localization. (#40)
• Add Brazilian localization. (#37, #47)
• Improve German localization. (#25, #27, #49)
• Improve Lithuanian localization. (#52)
• Improve floating point spelling. (#24)

Version 0.5.3 -- 2015/06/09

• Fix packaging issues. (#21, #22)

Version 0.5.2 -- 2015/01/23

• Added Latvian localization. (#9)
• Improved Spanish localization. (#10, #13, #14)
• Improved Lithuanian localization. (#12)

Version 0.5.1 -- 2014/03/14

• Added Python 3 support with 2to3. (#3)
• Fixed big numbers in spanish. (#2)
• Fixed bugs in tanslation from 30 to 40 in spanish. (#4)
• Fixed word joining in english. (#8)

Version 0.5.0 -- 2013/05/28

• Created num2words based on the old pynum2word project.