drhus / pybrl

Braille (6-dot cell patterns) notation and conversion library for Python

pybrl ⠏⠽⠃⠗⠇

Braille (6-dot cell patterns) for Python

Grade 1

import pybrl

print pybrl.braille("braille for python is cool!") -> "⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑⠀⠋⠕⠗⠀⠏⠽⠞⠓⠕⠝⠀⠊⠎⠀⠉⠕⠕⠇⠮"

print pybrl.ascii("⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑⠀⠋⠕⠗⠀⠏⠽⠞⠓⠕⠝⠀⠊⠎⠀⠉⠕⠕⠇⠮") -> "braille for python is cool!"

Conversions

• braille to ascii
• braille to hex
• braille to dot
• braille to matrix
• ascii to braille
• hex to braille
• dot to braille
• matrix to braille

Contradictions (Grade 2)

TODO!

Symbols mappings

CSV file, that hold basic mapping between Braille symbols, ascii, hex, unicode, dot, matrix, words, meanings and decodings data.

https://github.com/markomanninen/pybrl/blob/master/braille_mappings.csv

IPython notebook demo

https://github.com/markomanninen/pybrl/blob/master/Braille%20for%20Python%20(pybrl).ipynb

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille_ASCII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille_Patterns

http://www.brailleauthority.org/literary/ebae2002.pdf http://www.brailleauthority.org/ueb/symbols_list.pdf http://www.htctu.fhda.edu/trainings/manuals/alt/grade_two_day_2.pdf

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Marko Manninen