What is a Barcode?

PyBarcode ships with a little commandline script to generate barcodes without knowing Python. The install script detects your Python version and adds the major version number to the executable script. On Python 2 it is called pybarcode2 and on Python 3 pybarcode3. When installing in a systemwide direction, you can have pyBarcode installed in Python 2 and 3 at the same time without trouble.

pip install pyBarcode

Provided Barcodes

EAN-8, EAN-13, UPC-A, JAN, ISBN-10, ISBN-13, ISSN, Code 39, PZN

Usage form command line

pybarcode{2,3} create “My Text” barcodename

If you know which python version your system have then run accordingly.I am assuming python3.x

pybarcode{2,3} create -t png "My Text" outfile

pybarcode3 create "My Text" outfile

or

Sample example to generate QR code and save in svg file in python.

ean13 is EAN or European Article Number and 13 representing it is 13 digit number

>>> import barcode
>>> ean = barcode.get('ean13', '123456789102')
# Now we look if the checksum was added
>>> ean.get_fullcode()
u'1234567891026'
>>> filename = ean.save('ean13')
>>> filename
u'ean13.svg'
>>> options = dict(compress=True)
>>> filename = ean.save('ean13', options)
>>> filename
u'ean13.svgz'

Now we have ean13.svg and the compressed ean13.svgz in our current working directory. Open it and see the result.

To generate barcodes as images, you must provide the ImageWriter to the get function. Without any options, the images are rendered as PNG.

>>> import barcode
>>> from barcode.writer import ImageWriter
>>> ean = barcode.get('ean13', '123456789102', writer=ImageWriter())
>>> filename = ean.save('ean13')
>>> filename
u'ean13.png'

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