Parse United Kingdom postal codes
Project description
ukpc is a Python module that parses United Kingdom postcode strings into constituent parts:
area
district
sector
unit
Install:
pip install ukpc
Currently, only Python 3.x is supported. Let me know if you need 2.7+ support.
Usage:
>>> from ukpc import PostCode pc = PostCode('NW3 2RR') >>> str(pc) 'area=NW, district=3, sector=2, unit=RR'
You can get parts with properties as expected. We also provide PostCode.farea, PostCode.fdistrict, PostCode.fsector, PostCode.funit properties. Some people refer to sector as the cumulative postcode up to and including sector rather than just the sector number:
>>> pc.sector '2' >>> pc.fsector 'NW3 2'
farea and area are the same. funit is the input string, the full postcode.
There is not too much validation and no reformatting of postcodes! An exception will be thrown if the parser can’t parse the string. The parser expects well-formed, upper-case strings as input. If you want to validate or format postcodes, there are some other projects that appear to do this well:
https://github.com/andersonbispo/ukpcode
https://github.com/hamstah/ukpostcodeparser/blob/master/ukpostcodeparser/parser.py
We also provide a utility for reading a file of postcodes. The file is expected to be csv and the first column only is read as a well-formed, upper-case postcode.
from ukpc.utils import iterate_file iterate_file(path, callback=store_pc_in_database)
callback is any callable that you must provide. This will cause store_pc_in_database() to be called with a PostCode instance.
There is also a command line util that calls iterate_file():
(.env)➜ ukpc python -m ukpc.utils postcodes.csv --stats time in secs: 27 areas: 123 districts: 3089 sectors: 12302 units: 401
Get a list of all postcodes with geo information here:
https://www.doogal.co.uk/PostcodeDownloads.php
We follow this specification:
https://www.mrs.org.uk/pdf/postcodeformat.pdf
Testing
pip install pytest cd logtrace pytest test.py --verbose
or
python3 logtrace/test.py
Performance
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