Python Phonenumbers Module
Python Phonenumbers Module
If we are looking at odd phone numbers, or when a call from an unknown number, a number of simple questions spring up in our minds, such as the person who’s calling us, where they are calling or from, the area of the number, whether the phone number is legitimate in any way, as many more.
If we must figure out the answers to all these questions by hand it can take some time since it is impossible to perform all tasks at the same time.
As an example, in order to know the location of the number, we need to be aware about the code for each nation, and this is impossible (except for a few exceptions). Also, if we want to determine whether a particular phone number is in fact valid or not, we must make a call, even happens if we have thousands or hundreds of these numbers. Thus, doing these tasks is extremely stressful and time-consuming. This is why we must search for alternative options. Numerous programming languages provide extensions or packages that perform these functions on telephone numbers.
Python is one of the most widely used programming languages, comes with the phonenumbers Module that is extremely beneficial to us in performing any of these operations with an application.
So, we’ll be introduced to the phonesnumbers Module of Python within this lesson, and then perform a variety of like operations with this module in a few examples.
Introduction to Phonenumbers Module of Python
Phonenumbers is an Python module that has many features like processing phone numbers. The Phonenumbers module within Python is able of carrying out various tasks on a particular phone number, including determining the area that the number is located in, the operator of the phone number and so on.
It is possible to use the functions of the phonenumbers module within the Python application by adding the module into our program, and then using these functions to perform the desired actions on phone numbers.
The Phonenumbers module can be extremely useful to us in a variety of ways, including the advantages:
- This module helps us save a lots of time and effort
- This module helps us save time for performing operations using telephone numbers.
- We can carry out multiple tasks simultaneously on a specific phone number by using the phonenumbers module.
- We can also operate on multiple number simultaneously with this module
These are just a few of the many benefits of using the phonenumbers feature in an Python program. We will be performing a variety of operations with a specific telephone number during this tutorial using examples of programs. That’s how we’ll learn about the process of implementing this module.
We will also go through the installation process for the phonenumbers module within this section.
Phonenumbers Module of Python: Installation
Phonenumbers isn’t an inbuilt module of Python (it isn’t installed as part of it as part of the Python installation) This is the reason when this module isn’t installed in our system we must install it.
First, we must ensure that the phonenumbers package is already installed on the system or not , as it will be impossible to carry out implementation without this module in our system.
If the phonenumbers modules isn’t installed on our system, there are several options to install the module. Of all the options for installation that install the phonenumbers modules using an installer like pip is by far the most simple and most straightforward.
We will be using the pip installation tool in our tutorial to installing the phonenumbers modules in our system. In this way, we’ll employ the following pip installer command:
- pip install phonenumbers
You must type the command above in the terminal command prompt following this command we will need press enter to ensure that the pip installer starts installing the module on our system. Once the installation of this module starts it will take a time to install the module on our system and we will have to remain patient until it is done.
As we can see, a successfully installed message is displayed on our screen, which means that the phonenumbers module is now successfully installed in our system. Now, we can start working with the phonenumbers module by importing it into the example Python programs and understanding its implementation.
Phonenumbers Module of Python: Implementation
As we’ve previously discussed how we can carry out a range of operations by using the phonenumbers module of an Python program. We will carry out a number of such operations using the functions of the phonenumbers module in this article to learn about the operation of this module.
We will carry out the following tasks using phonesnumbers’ functions so that we can be able to understand the implementation of it:
- Understanding the area of the number.
- Knowing the timezone of a telephone number
- Knowing the carrier of a phone number.
- Converting variable string strings into phonenumber format
- Matching and extracting numbers from phones
- Validating a number
We will carry out all of the actions described above in this part using the features of the telephonenumbers modules in an example program in order to comprehend the way it works and how it is implemented.
Application 1: Knowing the Region of the Phone Number
We can find out the area of a particular call, i.e. it is possible to can determine from the which country or region the phone number is located in. The Geocoder library of the phonenumbers module provides us the description_for_number() function, which we can use to find out the region of a given phone number. It is possible to use this function by supplying that number in the argument in the function. Then, we can output the area of the telephone number from the result. We can understand the implementation of the description_for_number() function of the phonenumbers module through the following example program.
