testdatagen python package

This testdatagen.nameandaddr module generates pipe ('|') delimited test data with the following fields - firstname, lastname, email, streetAddress, ZipCode, City, State, StateAbrv, County, Latitude, Longitude

The intention of this module is to provide a simple way to quickly generate person test data.

Usage :

from testdatagen import nameandaddr
nameandaddr.nameaddr(filename, recordcount)

example : nameandaddr.nameaddr('persons.csv', 300)

This example will create  a file named 'persons.csv' in the  directory where this program is located.
The file 'persons.csv' will have 300 lines.
It is recommended that you provide a fuly qualified file name (i.e. /path/filename)

It needs the included csv files to generate the test data. These files are listed below -

testdata_dn.csv
testdata_fn.csv
testdata_ln.csv
testdata_st.csv
us_postal_codes.csv

Of the above csv files, the first four are created using faker module. The last file is publicly available information.