Textstat

Textstat is an easy to use Python library that analyzes text to provide detailed statistics, readability scores, and complexity metrics. Perfect for content analysis, education, and natural language processing.

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Usage

>>> from textstat import Text, Sentence, Word

>>> my_text = Text(
  "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the "
  "bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into "
  "the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or "
  "conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice "
  "“without pictures or conversations?”"
)

>>> my_text.stats()
{'letters': 236, 'characters': 246, 'words': 57, 'sentences': 1}

>>> my_text.flesch_reading_ease()
31.727368421052645

>>> my_text.filter(Word.length >= 10)
[Word('conversations'), Word('conversations')]

For full documentation, see https://docs.textstat.org/

Installation

textstat is available on PyPi and Conda Forge.

pip install textstat

conda install textstat