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 uses too much memory, and it didn't support Python 3 when this package was created.

You can redistribute it and/or modify this port under the terms of either:

• Artistic License, or
• GPL or GPLv2+

If you're OK with GPL-only, use unidecode (it has better memory usage and better transliteration quality).

text-unidecode supports Python 2.7 and 3.4+.

pip install text-unidecode

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