A utility script to take alphanumeric characters and translate them to the NATO phonetic alphabet, commonly used in radio-telephony. Characters that are not part of the strings.ascii_letters or string.digits are represented as themselves and are generally assumed to be special characters which generally are less ambiguously communicated.

This application has no external dependencies.

This package should work Python 3.x

This project was built as a personal learning exercise in Python packaging standards and processes.

$ pardon
usage: pardon string ...
help:
    utility script to translate alphanumeric characters
    into phonetic spelling as defined by NATO alphabet standards

$ pardon hello world hunter2
"hello"

	Hotel  Echo  Lima  Lima  Oscar

"world"

	Whiskey  Oscar  Romeo  Lima  Delta

"hunter2"

	Hotel  Uniform  November  Tango  Echo  Romeo  Two

Currently an effort has not been put in place to make this available via PyPI. Run either of the following to install (from the source directory)

python3 setup.py install

or

pip3 install .