Gotta get schwifty with your IBANs

July 23, 2026 · View on GitHub

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Gotta get schwifty with your IBANs

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schwifty is a Python library that let's you easily work with IBANs and BICs as specified by the ISO. IBAN is the Internation Bank Account Number and BIC the Business Identifier Code. Both are used for international money transfer.

Features

schwifty lets you

  • validate_ check-digits and the country specific format of IBANs
  • validate_ format and country codes from BICs
  • generate_ BICs from country and bank-code
  • generate_ IBANs from country-code, bank-code and account-number.
  • generate_ random valid IBANs
  • get the BIC associated to an IBAN's bank-code
  • access all relevant components as attributes

See the docs <https://schwifty.readthedocs.io>_ for more inforamtion.

.. _validate: https://schwifty.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#validation .. _generate: https://schwifty.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#generation

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Versioning

Since the IBAN specification and the mapping from BIC to bank_code is updated from time to time, schwifty uses CalVer <http://www.calver.org/>_ for versioning with the scheme YY.0M.Micro.

.. installation-begin

Installation

To install schwifty, simply:

.. code-block:: bash

$ pip install schwifty

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Development

The only prerequisite to work on schwifty is uv_. Running uv sync creates a virtual environment with all development dependencies (including the tools mentioned below).

We use ruff_ as code formatter and linter. This avoids discussions about style preferences in the same way as gofmt does the job for Golang. The conformance to the formatting rules is checked in the CI pipeline, so that it is recommendable to install the configured prek_-hook, in order to avoid long feedback-cycles.

.. code-block:: bash

uvsyncallgroupsallextrasuv sync --all-groups --all-extras uv run prek install

You can also run uv run poe fmt to format the code or use one of the available editor integrations. See the contributing guide for the full list of development commands and the contribution workflow.

Project Information

schwifty is released under MIT_ license and its documentation lives at Read the Docs. The code is maintained on GitHub and packages are distributed on PyPI_

Name


Since ``swift`` and ``swiftly`` were already taken by the OpenStack-project, but we somehow wanted
to point out the connection to SWIFT, Rick and Morty came up with the idea to name the project
``schwifty``.

.. image:: https://i.cdn.turner.com/adultswim/big/video/get-schwifty-pt-2/rickandmorty_ep205_002_vbnuta15a755dvash8.jpg


.. _uv: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/
.. _contributing guide: https://github.com/mdomke/schwifty/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.rst
.. _ruff: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/
.. _prek: https://prek.j178.dev
.. _editor integrations:  https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/editors/
.. _MIT: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/
.. _Read the Docs: https://schwifty.readthedocs.io
.. _GitHub: https://github.com/mdomke/schwifty
.. _PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/schwifty