text-unidecode is the most basic port of the Text::Unidecode Perl library.

There are other Python ports of Text::Unidecode (unidecode and isounidecode). unidecode is GPL; isounidecode doesn't support Python 3 and uses too much memory.

This port is licensed under Artistic License and supports Python 2.7 and 3.3+. If you're OK with GPL, use unidecode (it has better memory usage and better transliteration quality).

pip install text-unidecode 

>>> from text_unidecode import unidecode >>> unidecode(u'какой-то текст') u'kakoi-to tekst'