.. versionadded:: 0.7beta4

PyBarcode ships with a little commandline script to generate barcodes without knowing Python. The install script detects your Python version and adds the major version number to the executable script. On Python 2 it is called pybarcode2 and on Python 3 pybarcode3. When installing in a systemwide direction, you can have pyBarcode installed in Python 2 and 3 at the same time without trouble.

Usage:

$ pybarcode{2,3} create "My Text" outfile
New barcode saved as outfile.svg.
$ pybarcode{2,3} create -t png "My Text" outfile
New barcode saved as outfile.png.
$ pybarcode{2,3} create -b ean8 -t jpeg "1234567" ean8_out
New barcode saved as ean8_out.jpg.

See pybarcode{2,3} -h for more options.