How can I use the python-phonenumbers library to check the type of phone number?

Question

How can we use the python-phonenumbers library to determine whether a particular phone number is a mobile number or landline number?

Answer 1

Use phonenumbers.phonenumberutil.number_type to get the number type (after you have parsed the number). e.g.

x = phonenumbers.parse("0282784492", "AU")
phonenumbers.phonenumberutil.number_type(x)

So if you wanted to use x if it was not a fixed line number you could do:

if phonenumbers.phonenumberutil.number_type(x) is not phonenumbers.PhoneNumberType.FIXED_LINE:
    # Do something...

The possible phone number types are:

• FIXED_LINE = 0
• MOBILE = 1
• FIXED_LINE_OR_MOBILE = 2
• TOLL_FREE = 3
• PREMIUM_RATE = 4
• SHARED_COST = 5
• VOIP = 6
• PERSONAL_NUMBER = 7
• PAGER = 8
• UAN = 9
• VOICEMAIL = 10
• UNKNOWN = 99

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