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https://github.com/nerdocs/pydifact
A python EDIFACT library.
https://github.com/nerdocs/pydifact
edifact library python3
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A python EDIFACT library.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/nerdocs/pydifact
- Owner: nerdocs
- License: mit
- Created: 2017-05-09T22:05:30.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-06-12T21:29:18.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-07-10T22:26:41.750Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: edifact, library, python3
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 404 KB
- Stars: 143
- Watchers: 17
- Forks: 43
- Open Issues: 7
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
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README
# pydifact
A Python library to parse and serialize UN/EDIFACT interchanges.
## Preamble
This is a port of [metroplex-systems/edifact](https://github.com/metroplex-systems/edifact) to Python. Thanks here at the start to [Craig Duncan](https://github.com/duncan3dc) for this cool piece of software. Porting was like a breeze due to the high code quality there. All credits for the initial code here go to him, I just did the translation to Python(3), some "pythonifications" of the code and little improvements.
### Why another EDIFACT library?
Because I did not find a decent UN/EDIFACT library for Python, so I decided to port one of the available good PHP libraries to Python. Here is the result.
ATM this is a Work In Progress, the API is not stable yet.
Feel free to help.
## Install
As usual, use a virtualenv, and install via pip or pipenv:
```bash
pip install pydifact
```
However, it is not stable yet, so the pypi version, including documentation and code examples, could differ from the latest git code. If in doubt, use the git version:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/nerdocs/pydifact.git
cd pydifact
pip install -e .
```
## Usage
To read a full Interchange from a file or string, take the `Interchange` class and
iter over the messages and segments:
```python
from pydifact.segmentcollection import Interchange
interchange = Interchange.from_file("./tests/data/wikipedia.edi")
interchange = Interchange.from_str(
"UNA:+,? '"
"UNB+UNOC:1+1234+3333+200102:2212+42'"
"UNH+42z42+PAORES:93:1:IA'"
"MSG+1:45'"
"IFT+3+XYZCOMPANY AVAILABILITY'"
"ERC+A7V:1:AMD'"
"UNT+5+42z42'UNZ+2+42'"
)
for message in interchange.get_messages():
for segment in message.segments:
print("Segment tag: {}, content: {}".format(segment.tag, segment.elements))
```
You may also want to iterate directly on segments :
```python
from pydifact.segmentcollection import Interchange
interchange = Interchange.from_str(
"UNA:+,? '"
"UNB+UNOC:1+1234+3333+200102:2212+42'"
"UNH+42z42+PAORES:93:1:IA'"
"MSG+1:45'"
"IFT+3+XYZCOMPANY AVAILABILITY'"
"ERC+A7V:1:AMD'"
"UNT+5+42z42'UNZ+2+42'"
)
for segment in interchange.segments:
print("Segment tag: {}, content: {}".format(segment.tag, segment.elements))
```
Or you can create an EDI interchange on the fly:
```python
from pydifact.segmentcollection import Interchange
from pydifact.segments import Segment
interchange = Interchange(syntax_identifier=("IBMA",1),
sender="MeMyselfAndIrene",
recipient="TheOtherOne",
control_reference="KLuzs7c6")
interchange.add_segment(Segment("QTY", ["12", "3"]))
print(interchange.serialize())
```
You may also want to parse a « raw » segment bunch which is not an interchange :
```python
from pydifact.segmentcollection import RawSegmentCollection
collection = RawSegmentCollection.from_str("UNH+1+ORDERS:D:96A:UN:EAN008'")
for segment in collection.segments:
print("Segment tag: {}, content: {}".format(segment.tag, segment.elements))
```
## Limitations
- No support of optional functional groups (`UNG`→`UNE`),
## Alternatives
In python ecosystem:
- [python-edifact](https://github.com/FriedrichK/python-edifact) - simpler, IMHO less cleaner code, less flexible. may be faster though (not tested). Seems unmaintained.
- [bots](https://github.com/bots-edi/bots) - huge, with webinterface (bots-monitor), webserver, bots-engine.
- [edicat](https://github.com/notpeter/edicat) - simple, only for separating lines/segments for CLI-piping.
## Development
### Setup
To develop pydifact, clone the repository and install the dev requirements:
```
pip install -e .[dev]
```
This installs all the python packages needed for development and testing.
### Code formatting
Format all python files using [black](https://black.readthedocs.io) before committing.
Happy coding, PR are more than welcome to make this library better, or to add a feature that matches your needs.
Nevertheless, don't forget adding tests for every aspect you add in code.
### Testing
pydifact uses [pytest](http://pytest.org) for testing.
Just exec `pytest` within the project folder to execute the unit tests. Make sure you installed the library properly before using `pip install -e .[dev]`.
There is one test to check the performance of parsing huge files, named `test_huge_message` - you can skip that test by calling
```bash
pytest --ignore tests/test_huge_message.py
```
This is recommended for fast testing.
## License
This library is licensed under the
*MIT* license, see the
[LICENSE file](LICENSE).