personalnames

https://github.com/digirati-co-uk/personalnames

Lightweight Python functions for generating different formats for personal names

For example, when parsing text (from OCR or manual transcription) for named individuals, it can be useful to know all of the forms in which a name might appear.

"Dr Martin Luther King, Jr."

for example, might appear as "Dr. M. L. King, Jr." or as "King, Dr. Martin L., Jr.".

This code will generate name variants by parsing a name (as a string), identifying prexifes and suffixes, and returning possible variants.

Requirements

Python 3.x

Required python packages are listed in requirements.txt.

Installation

pip install personalnames

Usage

from personalnames import names

name = "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

formats = names.name_initials(
    name=name, name_formats=["firstnamelastname", "lastnamefirstname"]
)

assert sorted(formats) == sorted(
    [
        "King, Dr. M. L., Jr.",
        "Dr. Martin Luther King",
        "Dr. M. Luther King, Jr.",
        "King, M. L.",
        "King, M. L., Jr.",
        "Dr. Martin L. King",
        "Martin Luther King",
        "King, Dr. Martin L.",
        "M. Luther King, Jr.",
        "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.",
        "King, Dr. Martin L., Jr.",
        "Dr. M. L. King, Jr.",
        "King, Martin Luther",
        "King, Dr. M. L.",
        "King, M. Luther, Jr.",
        "King, Martin Luther, Jr.",
        "Dr. M. Luther King",
        "Dr. M. L. King",
        "Martin Luther King, Jr.",
        "King, Dr. M. Luther",
        "Martin L. King, Jr.",
        "M. Luther King",
        "King, Dr. Martin Luther",
        "M. L. King, Jr.",
        "Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.",
        "Martin L. King",
        "King, Martin L., Jr.",
        "King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.",
        "M. L. King",
        "King, M. Luther",
        "King, Dr. M. Luther, Jr.",
        "King, Martin L.",
    ]
)

There are two possible formats for name order: firstnamelastname and lastnamefirstname.

Additional Options:

non_ws=True

will return the same list but with additional versions that have no whitespace.

from personalnames import names

name = "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

formats = names.name_initials(
    name=name, name_formats=["firstnamelastname"], non_ws=True
)


assert sorted(formats) == sorted(
    [
        "Dr. M. L. King, Jr.",
        "Martin L. King",
        "M.LutherKing,Jr.",
        "Dr.MartinL.King",
        "M. Luther King",
        "Dr.MartinL.King,Jr.",
        "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.",
        "Dr.M.L.King,Jr.",
        "Martin Luther King, Jr.",
        "Dr.M.LutherKing",
        "Dr. Martin Luther King",
        "MartinL.King",
        "Dr. M. Luther King, Jr.",
        "Dr. M. L. King",
        "MartinLutherKing,Jr.",
        "M. L. King, Jr.",
        "M. Luther King, Jr.",
        "M.L.King",
        "Dr.M.LutherKing,Jr.",
        "Martin Luther King",
        "MartinLutherKing",
        "Dr.M.L.King",
        "MartinL.King,Jr.",
        "M. L. King",
        "Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.",
        "Martin L. King, Jr.",
        "Dr.MartinLutherKing,Jr.",
        "Dr. M. Luther King",
        "Dr.MartinLutherKing",
        "Dr. Martin L. King",
        "M.L.King,Jr.",
        "M.LutherKing",
    ]
)

License

MIT License

Copyright Digirati Ltd. (c) 2018

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Contribution Guidelines

Personalnames uses Python 3.x.

Feel free to raise Github issues.

If you find an issue you are interested in fixing you can:

• Fork the repository
• Clone the repository to your local machine
• Create a new branch for your fix using git checkout -b branch-name-here.
• Fix the issue.
• Commit and push the code to your remote repository.
• Submit a pull request to the personalnames repository, with a description of your fix and the issue number.
• The PR will be reviewed by the maintainer https://github.com/mattmcgrattan and either merge the PR or response with comments.

Thanks!