nameparser 0.2.8

Capitalization Support

The HumanName class can try to guess the correct capitalization of name entered in all upper or lower case. It will not adjust the case of names entered in mixed case.

• bob v. de la macdole-eisenhower phd -> Bob V. de la MacDole-Eisenhower Ph.D.

Over 100 unit tests with example names. Should be unicode safe but it’s fairly untested. Post a ticket and/or for names that fail and I will try to fix it.

HumanName instances will pass an equals (==) test if their lower case unicode representations are the same.

Output Format

The format of the strings returned with unicode() can be adjusted using standard python string formatting. The string’s format() method will be passed a dictionary of names.

>>> name = HumanName("Rev John A. Kenneth Doe III")
>>> unicode(name)
"Rev John A. Kenneth Doe III"
>>> name.string_format = "{last}, {title} {first} {middle}, {suffix}"
>>> unicode(name)
"Doe, Rev John A. Kenneth, III"

Usage

>>> from nameparser import HumanName
>>> name = HumanName("Dr. Juan Q. Xavier de la Vega III")
>>> name.title
u'Dr.'
>>> name.first
u'Juan'
>>> name.middle
u'Q. Xavier'
>>> name.last
u'de la Vega'
>>> name.suffix
u'III'
>>> name.full_name = "Doe-Ray, Col. John A. Jérôme III"
>>> name.title
u'Col.'
>>> name.first
u'John'
>>> name.middle
u'A. Jérôme'
>>> name.last
u'Doe-Ray'
>>> name.suffix
u'III'
>>> name.full_name = "Juan Q. Xavier Velasquez y Garcia, Jr."
>>> name.title
u''
>>> name.first
u'Juan'
>>> name.middle
u'Q. Xavier'
>>> name.last
u'Velasquez y Garcia'
>>> name.suffix
u'Jr.'
>>> name.middle = "Jason Alexander"
>>> name.middle
u'Jason Alexander'
>>> name
<HumanName : [
    Title: ''
    First: 'Juan'
    Middle: 'Jason Alexander'
    Last: 'Velasquez y Garcia'
    Suffix: 'Jr.'
]>
>>> name = HumanName("Dr. Juan Q. Xavier de la Vega III")
>>> name2 = HumanName("de la vega, dr. juan Q. xavier III")
>>> name == name2
True
>>> len(name)
5
>>> list(name)
['Dr.', 'Juan', 'Q. Xavier', 'de la Vega', 'III']
>>> name[1:-1]
[u'Juan', u'Q. Xavier', u'de la Vega']
>>> name = HumanName('bob v. de la macdole-eisenhower phd')
>>> name.capitalize()
>>> unicode(name)
u'Bob V. de la MacDole-Eisenhower Ph.D.'
>>> # Don't touch good names
>>> name = HumanName('Shirley Maclaine')
>>> name.capitalize()
>>> unicode(name)
u'Shirley Maclaine'

Customizing the Parser with Your Own Constants

Recognition of titles, prefixes, suffixes and conjunctions is provided by matching the lower case characters of a name piece with pre-defined sets located in nameparser.constants. You can adjust them to suite your needs by passing your own set of constants when instantiating a new HumanName object. Be sure to use the lower case representation with no punctuation.

• prefixes_c = PREFIXES

• titles_c = TITLES

• suffixes_c = SUFFIXES

• conjunctions_c = CONJUNCTIONS

• capitalization_exceptions_c = CAPITALIZATION_EXCEPTIONS

>>> from nameparser import HumanName
>>> from nameparser.constants import PREFIXES
>>>
>>> prefixes_c = PREFIXES | set(['te'])
>>> hn = HumanName(prefixes_c=prefixes_c)
>>> hn.full_name = "Te Awanui-a-Rangi Black"
>>> hn
<HumanName : [
    Title: ''
    First: 'Te Awanui-a-Rangi'
    Middle: ''
    Last: 'Black'
    Suffix: ''
]>

Contributing via Google Code

Feel free to post new issues to the Google Code project. The easiest way to submit changes is to create a clone of the Google project and commit changes to your clone with mercurial. I’ll happily pull changes that include tests from any clone. Create your clone here:

http://code.google.com/p/python-nameparser/source/clones

Then checkout your clone:

hg clone https://code.google.com/r/your-clone-name

Make your changes, add your tests, then push them to your clone.

hp push -b default

Then file a pull request in Google Code. To pull new changes from the canonical repository and apply them to your working directory:

hg pull -u https://code.google.com/r/python-nameparser

$ ./tests.py "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham-Clinton"
<HumanName : [
    Title: 'Secretary of State'
    First: 'Hillary'
    Middle: ''
    Last: 'Rodham-Clinton'
    Suffix: ''
]>

Naming Practices and Resources

• US_Census_Surname_Data_2000

• Naming_practice_guide_UK_2006

• Wikipedia_Naming_conventions

• Wikipedia_List_Of_Titles

Release Log

• 0.2.8 - Oct 25, 2013

  • Add support for Python 3.3+. Thanks to @corbinbs.

• 0.2.7 - Feb 13, 2013

  • Fix bug with multiple conjunctions in title

  • add legal and crown titles

• 0.2.6 - Feb 12, 2013

  • Fix python 2.6 import error on logging.NullHandler

• 0.2.5 - Feb 11, 2013

  • Set logging handler to NullHandler

  • Remove ‘ben’ from PREFIXES because it’s more common as a name than a prefix.

  • Deprecate BlankHumanNameError. Do not raise exceptions if full_name is empty string.

• 0.2.4 - Feb 10, 2013

  • Adjust logging, don’t set basicConfig. Fix #10 and #26.

  • Fix handling of single lower case initials that are also conjunctions, e.g. “john e smith”. Re #11.

  • Fix handling of initials with no space separation, e.g. “E.T. Jones”. Fix #11.

  • Do not remove period from first name, when present.

  • Remove ‘e’ from PREFIXES because it is handled as a conjunction.

  • Python 2.7+ required to run the tests. Mark known failures.

  • tests/test.py can now take an optional name argument that will return repr() for that name.

• 0.2.3 - Fix overzealous “Mac” regex

• 0.2.2 - Fix parsing error

• 0.2.0

  • Significant refactor of parsing logic. Handle conjunctions and prefixes before parsing into attribute buckets.

  • Support attribute overriding by assignment.

  • Support multiple titles.

  • Lowercase titles constants to fix bug with comparison.

  • Move documentation to README.rst, add release log.

• 0.1.4 - Use set() in constants for improved speed. setuptools compatibility - sketerpot

• 0.1.3 - Add capitalization feature - twotwo

• 0.1.2 - Add slice support