Python - Parse a Phone Number String

Parse Phone Number

You can parse a phone number present in string into a PhoneNumber object using phonenumbers.parse() function.

Pass the string to phonenumbers.parse() function, and it returns a PhoneNumber object.

Examples

1. Parse the phone number "+442083661177"

In the following program, we have a phone number string in variable phonenumber_string. We parse this string into a PhoneNumber object using phonenumbers.parse() function and store the object in x.

Python Program

import phonenumbers

phonenumber_string = "+442083661177"
x = phonenumbers.parse(phonenumber_string)
print(x)

Output

Country Code: 44 National Number: 2083661177

We can also read the following properties from the PhoneNumber object.

  • country_code
  • national_number
  • extension
  • italian_leading_zero
  • number_of_leading_zeros
  • raw_input
  • country_code_source
  • preferred_domestic_carrier_code

2. Get country code and other info

For example, in the following program, we print the country code, and number of leading zeros in the phone number.

Python Program

import phonenumbers

# Phone number in a string
phonenumber_string = "+442083661177"

# Parse string to a PhoneNumber object
x = phonenumbers.parse(phonenumber_string)

print('Country code :', x.country_code)
print('Number of leading zeros :', x.number_of_leading_zeros)

Output

Country code : 44
Number of leading zeros : None

Summary

In this tutorial of Python Examples, we learned how to parse a given phone number in a string to a PhoneNumber object using phonenumbers library, with the help of example programs.

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