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 PyNameMatcherfrom 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.
- use_metaphone
Match names using the metaphone library to catch misspellings.
match() Options
- name
First argument. The name to match
- 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)
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