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Create standard barcodes with Python. No external modules needed. (optional Pillow support included).

Project description

build status version on pypi licence

This library provides a simple way to create barcodes using only the Python standard lib. The barcodes are created as SVG objects.

python-barcode

Please report any bugs at https://github.com/WhyNotHugo/python-barcode/issues

Requirements

  • Setuptools/distribute for installation.

  • Python 3.5 or above

  • Program to open SVG objects (your browser should do it)

  • Optional: Pillow to render barcodes as images (PNG, JPG, …)

Installation

The best way is to use pip: pip install python-barcode.

You can also install manually by downloading the tarball, extracting it, and running python setup.py install.

Provided Barcodes

  • EAN-8

  • EAN-13

  • EAN-14

  • UPC-A

  • JAN

  • ISBN-10

  • ISBN-13

  • ISSN

  • Code 39

  • Code 128

  • PZN

Todo

  • Add documentation

  • Add more codes

Usage

Interactive:

>>> import barcode
>>> barcode.PROVIDED_BARCODES
['code39', 'code128', 'ean', 'ean13', 'ean8', 'gs1', 'gtin',
 'isbn', 'isbn10', 'isbn13', 'issn', 'jan', 'pzn', 'upc', 'upca']
>>> EAN = barcode.get_barcode_class('ean13')
>>> EAN
<class 'barcode.ean.EuropeanArticleNumber13'>
>>> ean = EAN('5901234123457')
>>> ean
<barcode.ean.EuropeanArticleNumber13 object at 0x00BE98F0>
>>> fullname = ean.save('ean13_barcode')
>>> fullname
'ean13_barcode.svg'
# Example with PNG
>>> from barcode.writer import ImageWriter
>>> ean = EAN('5901234123457', writer=ImageWriter())
>>> fullname = ean.save('ean13_barcode')
'ean13_barcode.png'
# New in v0.4.2
>>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>> fp = StringIO()
>>> ean.write(fp)
# or
>>> f = open('/my/new/file', 'wb')
>>> ean.write(f) # Pillow (ImageWriter) produces RAW format here
# New in v0.5.0
>>> from barcode import generate
>>> name = generate('EAN13', '5901234123457', output='barcode_svg')
>>> name
'barcode_svg.svg'
# with file like object
>>> fp = StringIO()
>>> generate('EAN13', '5901234123457', writer=ImageWriter(), output=fp)
>>>

Now open ean13_barcode.[svg|png] in a graphic app or simply in your browser and see the created barcode. That’s it.

Commandline:

$ python-barcode create "My Text" outfile
New barcode saved as outfile.svg.
$ python-barcode create -t png "My Text" outfile
New barcode saved as outfile.png.

Try `python-barcode -h` for help.

Changelog

v0.9.1

  • Officially support Python 3.7

  • Refer to Pillow in the docs, rather than PIL.

v0.9.0

  • Removed buggy Barcode.raw attribute.

  • Various CLI errors ironed out.

  • Make the default value for writer_options` consistent across writers.

v0.8.3

  • Fix pushing of releases to GitHub.

v0.8.2

  • Fix crashes when attempting to use the CLI app.

  • Properly include version numbers in SVG comments.

v0.8.1

  • Improve README rendering, and point to this fork’s location (the outdated README on PyPI was causing some confusion).

v0.8.0

  • First release under the name python-barcode.

Previous Changelog

This project is a fork of pyBarcode, which, apparently, is no longer maintained. v0.8.0 is our first release, and is the latest master from that parent project.

v0.8

  • Code 128 added.

  • Data for charsets and bars moved to subpackage barcode.charsets.

  • Merged in some improvements.

v0.7

  • Fixed some issues with fontsize and fontalignment.

  • Added Python 3 support. It’s not well tested yet, but the tests run without errors with Python 3.3. Commandline script added.

v0.6

  • Changed save and write methods to take the options as a dict not as keyword arguments (fix this in your code). Added option to left align the text under the barcode. Fixed bug with EAN13 generation.

v0.5.0

  • Added new generate function to do all generation in one step.

  • Moved writer from a subpackage to a module (this breaks some existing code). UPC is now rendered as real UPC, not as EAN13 with the leading “0”.

v0.4.3

  • Fixed bug in new write method (related to PIL) and updated docs.

v0.4.2

  • Added write method to support file like objects as target.

v0.4.1

  • Bugfix release. Removed redundancy in input validation.

  • EAN8 was broken. It now works as expected.

v0.4

  • Removed **options from writers __init__ method. These options never had effect. They were always overwritten by default_options.

  • New config option available: text_distance (the distance between barcode and text).

v0.4b2

  • Basic documentation included. The barcode object now has a new attribute called raw to have the rendered output without saving to disk.

v0.4b1

  • Support for rendering barcodes as images is implemented. PIL is required to use it.

v0.3

  • Compression for SVG output now works.

v0.3b1

  • Writer API has changed for simple adding new (own) writers.

  • SVG output is now generated with xml.dom module instead of stringformatting (makes it more robust).

v0.2.1

  • API of render changed. Now render takes keyword arguments instead of a dict.

v0.2

  • More tests added.

v0.1

  • First release.

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