Gotta get schwifty with your IBANs
July 23, 2026 · View on GitHub
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Gotta get schwifty with your IBANs
.. teaser-begin
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 IBANsvalidate_ format and country codes from BICsgenerate_ BICs from country and bank-codegenerate_ 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
.. teaser-end
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
.. installation-end
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
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``.
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.. _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