textstat

What's Changed

• Add Hungarian support. #189
• Python 3.12 compatability. #197 #198

New Contributors

• @matyasosvath made their first contribution in https://github.com/textstat/textstat/pull/189
• @mbarkhau made their first contribution in https://github.com/textstat/textstat/pull/197

Thanks to @matyasosvath and @mbarkhau for your contributions this release!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/shivam5992/textstat/compare/0.7.3...0.7.4

What's Changed

• Add type hints. #181
• Add McAlpine EFLAW readability score. #174
• Fix issue with remove_punctuation(). #172
• Make rounding optional with textstat.set_rounding(False). #166
• Fix broken fernandez_huerta(). #165
• Fix broken wiener_sachtextformel(). #163
• Update syllable_count to use .split() and not .split(' ') so to split on all whitespace. #161

New Contributors

• @AjBreidenbach made their first contribution in https://github.com/shivam5992/textstat/pull/145
• @Clickedbigfoot made their first contribution in https://github.com/shivam5992/textstat/pull/159
• @kadatatlukishore made their first contribution in https://github.com/shivam5992/textstat/pull/160
• @LKirst made their first contribution in https://github.com/shivam5992/textstat/pull/161
• @pls78 made their first contribution in https://github.com/shivam5992/textstat/pull/181

Thanks to @LKirst, @Clickedbigfoot, @AjBreidenbach, @kadatatlukishore, @pls78, and @lclarko for your contributions this release!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/shivam5992/textstat/compare/0.7.2...0.7.3

• Added exception handling for ZeroDivisionErrors. #144
• Added Arabic readability support. #147
• Added Indice Gulpease index for Italian language support. #142
• Added German readability support. #141
• Update dale_chall_readability_score to use new syllable_threshold= kwarg. #143

Thanks to @lukaschoebel, @GuillemGSubies, and @lclarko for their contributions this release!

• Improved performace of difficult_words function.

Thanks to @markopy for their contribution this release!

• Added Fernandez-Huerta test, Szigriszt-Pasos formula, Gutierrez-Polini index, Crawford's formula. #129
• Added is_difficult_word and is_easy_word functions. #135

Thanks to @downvec and @richiehowelll for their contributions this release!

Hotfix: add missing resource files

• Added cache clear method. #123
• Added support for different languages in difficult_words. #120

Thanks to @cclauss and @GuillemGSubies for their contributions this release!

• Dropped support for Python 2 🎉. #103
• Switched to using Pythons built-in LRU cache. #100

Thanks to @hugovk and @GuillemGSubies for their contributions this release!

Final Python2 release

• Added new spache_readability function. #87
• Added the new Dale Chall readability score under dale_chall_readability_score_v2. #90
• Added some support for more languages. #95, #96, #97
• Added new functiondifficult_words_list which returns the list of difficult words. #99
• Added new function reading_time. #102

Thanks to @akarsh3007, @lmaczulajtys, @rinaldo-rex, @kishiyamat, and @halidziya for their contributions this release!

• Fix issue with Python 2 and open(, encoding=). See #86

Thanks to @bradfordlynch, @MKaras93, and @jhpyle for their contributions this release!

• Specify README encoding in setup.py.
• Increase syllable threshold for difficult_words from 1 to 2.
• Set gunning_fog difficult word syllable threshold to 3.

• textstat.avg_letter_per_word() now ignores punctuation. #67
• Added new methods:
  • textstat.avg_character_per_word() which has the same functionality as the old avg_letter_per_word and included puctuation.
  • textstat.letter_count() is that same as char_count, but ignores puctuation.

• .text_standard() will now correctly use the correct ordinal suffix. #65
• .gunning_fog() should now be using the correct formula. #62, #66

Thanks to @mcnuttandrew, @jayantj for contributions for this release!

• Fixes issue with Python 2 and Pyphen.

• Fix issue with Python 2 importing. #60, #61

• .text_standard() now supports keyword argument float_output to allow result as a float. #32, #57
• .difficult_words() is now case insensitive and supports the unicode quote marks ‘ and ’. #36
• .linsear_write_formula() has had unnecessary workload removed. #37
• Reduced importing from from textstat.textstat import textstat to import textstat. #41
• textstat methods now have a default return value of 0.0 instead of None to help when using with modules like pandas. #48

Thanks to @aetherwu, @Kr0san89, @tripleee, @catethos for contributions for this release!