# Python library to read .sif/.sifz

**URL:** https://forums.synfig.org/t/python-library-to-read-sif-sifz/14302
**Category:** Documentation
**Created:** [August 15, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/python-library-to-read-sif-sifz/14302 "2023-08-15T17:39:13Z")
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### Author: ![Marnanel](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/marnanel/32/7459_2.png) [@Marnanel](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Marnanel)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/python-library-to-read-sif-sifz/14302/9 "2024-06-30T21:43:43Z")

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Update! Sangfroid is now on pypi, so you can install it with `pip install sangfroid`.

> [@New Python library to modify Synfig files: sangfroid 0.1](https://forums.synfig.org/t/new-python-library-to-modify-synfig-files-sangfroid-0-1/15186):
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> I have so many bits and pieces of Python code to modify Synfig files that I put them together into a library. This is the first release: [sangfroid version 0.1 liverpool](https://pypi.org/project/sangfroid/). The easiest way to install it is pip install sangfroid. There is [documentation at RTD](https://sangfroid.readthedocs.io). As a demonstration which is also useful, installing sangfroid gives you [a script called bywords](https://sangfroid.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bywords.html) which times the appearance of words in an animation based on a subtitle file, thus: [word by word] or [letter by letter] sangfroid isn’t perf…

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