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Install from PyPI running
pip install clldutils
Originally, clldutils
started out as a library for functionality often used in clld
web apps. Over time, it turned into a toolbox for various data curation tasks, with a focus on cross-linguistic
data (as reflected by modules such as clldutils.iso_639_3
or clldutils.sfm
).
Design goals are
Documentation of the package is at https://clldutils.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
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Utilities for programmatic data curation
We found that clldutils demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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