The purpose of pluralslib is to avoid embarassing situations like 1 apples and 0 apple
is(amount, base, plural, singular) - Returns the amount and base word with either a plural or singular suffix. If plural is not set, s is used. If singular is not set, the base word is treated as the singular word, and is only changed if the amount warrants a plural word.
is(number) - returns string. "is" or "are" depending on amount
apples = 0
print('You have ' + plural(apples, 'apple')) outputs You have 0 apples.
apples = 1
print('You have ' + plural(apples, 'apple')) outputs You have 1 apple.
Some words, like "library", have different suffixes for singular and plural versions. In this situation, you can do this:
libraries = 0
print('There ' + are(libraries) + ' + plural(libraries, 'librar', 'ies', 'y')) outputs There are 0 libraries.
Another function pluralslib offers shown in the above example is are. are reports "are" or "is" depending on the number.
from pluralslib import are, plural
libraries = 2
apples = 1
print('There ' + are(libraries) + ' ' + plural(libraries, 'librar', 'ies', 'y'))
print('You have ' + plural(libraries, 'apple'))
libraries = 1
apples = 2
print('There ' + are(libraries) + ' ' + plural(libraries, 'librar', 'ies', 'y'))
print('You have ' + plural(libraries, 'apple'))