nameparts

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nameparts is a Python module that I wrote to address a problem splitting full names into individual parts (first, middle, last, etc.)

You can use it like this:

>>> from nameparts import Name
>>> n = Name("Thurston Howel III")
>>> n.first_name
'Thurston'
>>> n.last_name
'Howel'
>>> n.as_dict
{'first_name': 'Thurston', 'last_name': 'Howel', \
  'middle_name': None, 'suffix': None, 'generation': 'III', \
  'salutation': None}
>>> n = Name("Smith, John Paul")
>>> n.first_name
'John'
>>> n.last_name
'Smith'
>>> n.middle_name
'Paul'

If you suspect you may see more than one name in a given field (i.e. separated by a/k/a) you can use MultiName:

>>> from nameparts import MultiName
>>> names = MultiName("Bruce Wayne a/k/a Batman")
>>> names
[<Name: 'Bruce Wayne'>, <Name: 'Batman'>]
>>> [n.as_dict for n in names]
[{'last_name': 'Wayne', 'salutation': None, 'first_name': 'Bruce', 'suffix': None,
  'generation': None, 'middle_name': None, 'aliases': None},
 {'last_name': '', 'salutation': None, 'first_name': 'Batman', 'suffix': None,
  'generation': None, 'middle_name': None, 'aliases': None}]

MultiName automatically uses the string ‘a/k/a’ to split names, but you can provide an optional splitter argument to override that:

>>> from nameparts import MultiName
>>> names = MultiName("Tony Stark | Ironman | Stark, Tony", splitter="|")
>>> names
[<Name: 'Tony Stark'>, <Name: 'Ironman'>, <Name: 'Tony Stark'>]