mimesis 1.0.3

Mimesis: mock data for developers.

Mimesis

Mimesis is a fast and easy to use the library for Python programming language, which helps generate mock data for a variety of purposes in a variety of languages. This data can be particularly useful during software development and testing. For example, it could be used to populate a testing database for a web application with user information such as email addresses, usernames, first names, last names, etc.

Documentation

Mimesis is very simple to use, and the below examples should help you get started. Complete documentation for Mimesis is available on Read the Docs.

Installation

To install mimesis, simply use pip (or pipenv):

➜  ~ pip install mimesis

Also, you can install it manually:

(env) ➜ python3 setup.py install
# or
(env) ➜ make install

Getting started

As we said above, this library is really easy to use. A simple usage example is given below:

>>> from mimesis import Personal
>>> from mimesis.enums import Gender
>>> person = Personal('en')

>>> person.full_name(gender=Gender.FEMALE)
'Antonetta Garrison'

>>> person.occupation()
'Backend Developer'

>>> for template in ('U_d', 'U-d', 'l_d', 'l-d'):
...     person.username(template=template)

'Adders_1893'
'Abdel-1888'
'constructor_1884'
'chegre-2051'

Locales

You can specify a locale when creating providers and they will return data that is appropriate for the language or country associated with that locale. Mimesis currently includes support for 33 different locales.

Data Providers

List of supported data providers available here