Writing Various Barcodes with Python
Learn how to write various kinds of linear barcodes with the python-barcode library.
We'll cover the following...
We will use the python-barcode library in this course to implement barcodes in Python.
Available barcode types
The following types of 1D barcodes are available from this library:
- Code 39
- Code 128
- PZN7 (aka: PZN)
- ISBN-13
- ISBN-10
- ISSN
- UPC-A
- EAN-8
- EAN-13
- EAN14
- JAN
- GS1-128
Writing barcodes
For our example here, we’ll create a few labels using the EAN-13 type barcode for some in-store products. As mentioned before, we can set the first two digits to any number between 20 and 29 for this specific purpose.
The last digit will be a modulo 10 check digit. We are now free to use the remaining 10 digits as we wish. It is also possible to avoid using the last digit as a check code. In this case, the last digit will be set to 0.
Let’s first import our main libraries. We’ll use the EAN13 class to create our EAN-13 barcodes. The ImageWriter and SVGWriter are used to output the rendered barcode to an image or to an SVG file, respectively.
from barcode import EAN13
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