Python - can I detect unicode string language code?

Question

I\'m faced with a situation where I\'m reading a string of text and I need to detect the language code (en, de, fr, es, etc).

Is there a simple way to do this in py

Answer 1

A useful article here suggests that this open source named CLD is the best bet for detecting language in python.

The article shows a comparison of speed and accuracy between 3 solutions :

1. language-detection or its python port langdetect
2. Tika
3. Chromium Language Detection (CLD)

I wasted my time with langdetect now I am switching to CLD which is 16x faster than langdetect and has 98.8% accuracy