app.py

import streamlit as st
import langcodes

# https://huggingface.co/blog/streamlit-spaces
langtext = st.text_input("language code", "en")

if langcodes.tag_is_valid(langtext):
  st.write(f"{langtext} is already a valid BCP-47 language tag")
else:
  st.write(f"{langtext} is not already a valid BCP-47 language tag")
    

try:
  lang = langcodes.Language.get(langtext)
  st.write(f"{lang} is the BCP-47 tag.")
  if "unknown" in lang.display_name().lower():
    lang = None
except langcodes.LanguageTagError as e: 
  st.write(f"Could not simply instantiate, trying to look up instead.")
  lang = None
  


if lang is None:
  try:
    found = langcodes.find(langtext)
    lang = found
    st.write(f"natural language search found the following BCP-47 tag: {lang}")
  except LookupError as e:
    st.write(f"Unable to look up language code.")
    lang = None


#st.write(f"langcodes found the following tag: {type(found)}") # a Language object
if lang is not None: 
  display = lang.display_name()

  st.write(f"Correct BCP-47 tag for {langtext}, according to the langcodes library: {lang}")
  st.write(f"Display name for {lang}: {lang.display_name()}")
  st.write(f"Autonym for {lang}: {lang.autonym()}")
  st.write(f"Alpha3 version (deprecated): {lang.to_alpha3()}")