kennitala 0.1.3

Icelandic national registry codes made easy

python-kennitala is a python library for common operations on Icelandic National Registry codes - kennitala.

Capabilities

• Validation of kennitala

• Extraction of birth date from kennitala

• Generating kennitala for a given birth date (for people or companies)

• Generating random kennitala (for people or companies)

• Recognize if kennitala belongs to person or company

Usage

>>> from datetime import date
>>> from kennitala import Kennitala
>>>
>>> kt_no = '0101109639'
>>> kennitala = Kennitala(kt_no)
>>> kennitala.validate()
True
>>> kennitala.get_birth_date()
datetime.date(1910, 1, 1)
>>> kennitala = Kennitala(kt_no.replace('3', '4'))
>>> kennitala.validate()
False
>>> kennitala.get_birht_date()
Traceback (most recent call last):
    File kennitala.py, in get_birth_date
kennitala.Invalid
>>>
>>> company_kt = Kennitala.generate(date.today(), person=False)
>>> Kennitala.is_personal(company_kt)
False

Installation

inside your virtualenv execute:

$ pip install kennitala

or download and install manually.

Tests

Tests are written for py.test

To run tests simply execute:

$ PYTHONPATH=./ py.test tests