textatistic's Introduction

Textatistic

Textatistic is a Python package to calculate the Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) and Dale-Chall readability indices. Textatistic also contains functions to count the number of sentences, characters, syllables, words, words with three or more syllables and words on an expanded Dale-Chall list of easy words.

Installation

$ pip install textatistic

Documentation

Detailed documentation available at erinhengel.com.

Quickstart

>>> from textatistic import Textatistic

# Generate object of readability statistics.
>>> text = 'There was a king with a large jaw. There was a queen with a plain face.'
>>> s = Textatistic(text)

# Return sentence count.
>>> s.sent_count
2

# Return Flesch Reading Ease score.
>>> s.flesch_score
114.11500000000001

# Return dictionary of character/word/syllable counts.
>>> s.counts
...

# Return dictionary of readability scores.
>>> s.scores
...

# Return dictionary of all attribute values.
>>> s.dict()
...

Table of attributes

`char_count`	number of non-space characters.
`notdalechall_count`	number of words not on Dale-Chall list of words understood by 80% of 4th graders.
`polysyblword_count`	number of words with three or more syllables.
`sent_count`	number of sentences.
`sybl_count`	number of syllables.
`word_count`	number of words.
`dalechall_score`	Dale-Chall score.
`flesch_score`	Flesch Reading Ease score.
`fleschkincaid_score`	Flesch-Kincaid score.
`gunningfog_score`	Gunning Fog score.
`smog_score`	SMOG score.

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