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This is a programming language detection library.
It will detect programming language of source in pure python from an ensemble of classifiers. Use this when a quick and dirty first approximation is good enough. whats_that_code can currently identify 60%+ of samples without knowing the extension or tag.
I created this because I wanted
Tested on python 3.6 through 3.9.
from whats_that_code.election import guess_language_all_methods
code = "def yo():\n print('hello')"
result = guess_language_all_methods(code, file_name="yo.py")
assert result == ["python"]
Each is imperfect and can error. The classifier then combines the results of each using a voting algorithm
This works best if you only use it for fallback, e.g. classifying code that can't already be classified by extension or tag, or when tag is ambiguous.
It was a tool that outgrew being a part of so_pip a StackOverflow code extraction tool I wrote.
FAQs
Guess programming language from a string or file.
We found that whats-that-code demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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