Pyx12 is a HIPAA X12 document validator and converter. It parses an ANSI X12N data file and validates it against a representation of the Implementation Guidelines for a HIPAA transaction. By default, it creates a 997 response for 4010 and a 999 response for 5010. It can create an html representation of the X12 document or can translate to and from an XML representation of the data file.

As a command line tool

x12valid <filename>

To fix common X12 structural errors

x12norm --fix --eol <filename>

Iterate over a loop.  Alter children. Show changes

    src = pyx12.x12context.X12ContextReader(param, errh, fd_in)
    for datatree in src.iter_segments('2300'):
        # do something with a 2300 claim loop
        # we have access to the 2300 loop and all its children
        for loop2400 in datatree.select('2400'):
            print(loop2400.get_value('SV101'))
            # update something
            loop2400.set_value('SV102', 'xx')
            # delete something
            if loop2400.exists('PWK'):
                loop2400.delete('PWK')
        # iterate over all the child segments
        for seg_node in datatree.iterate_segments():
            print(seg_node.format())

Pyx12 uses some runtime features of setuptools / distribute. If you use pip to install, all is good. If not, install setuptools first.

Get setuptools http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/

Get pip http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html

Install system-wide

pip install pyx12

Or install in a virtual environment

virtualenv my_env
pip -E my_env install pyx12

Pyx12 has a BSD license. The full license text is included with the source code for the package.