Help with matching names to nick-names and vice-versa. Based on data by https://github.com/carltonnorthern/nickname-and-diminutive-names-lookup
$ pip install PyNameMatcher
from pynamematcher import PyNameMatcher
matcher = PyNameMatcher(data_file=path_to_datafile)
possible_names = matcher.match('Bob')
__init__() Options
| data_file: | Path to a CSV formatted data file of names. Defaults to an internal data file. |
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| use_metaphone: | Match names using the metaphone library to catch misspellings. |
match() Options
| name: | First argument. The name to match |
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| use_metaphone: | used internally when self.use_metaphone is True |
| remove_match: | Remove the input name (default True). Used internally to keep names when searching metaphone symbols. |
| empty_match_returns_none: | If no names match the method will return None instead of the empty set this is to enable the behavior of versions before 0.2. (default False) |
Chris Brown - chris.brown@constituentvoice.com
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