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.