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I found out there are strict rules for formatting ISBNs.

There are Implementations in C, Emacs elisp, php and check-digit checking perl.

There are also articles about the structure and country prefixes. Finally there is the official Handbook.

I have ported the implementation from bibclean over to Python done some pythonisations to speed it up and added a check sum validation routine inspired by the perl version.

Download isbn.py.

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