za_identity_number

ZA / RSA Identity Number Library to validate/check/manipulate and retrieve ID number info for South African IDs

Current version: 0.2.0

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UV & pip compatibility

Python 3.5 or greater for f-strings. Officially only support from py 3.7 >=

Python3.12 support added in CI

Installation:

pip:

pip install za-id-number

uv:

uv add za-id-number

ZA ID Numbers / RSA ID numbers / South African ID numbers:

ZA id numbers are validated by the luhn algorithm, with the last number validating that the entire number is correct.

ZA ID number is broken up into 2 digits birth year, 2 digits birth month, 2 digits birth date, 4 digits for gender, 1 digit for citizenship (za/other), 1 digit race (phased out after 1980) 1 digit for validation.

For more info: https://www.westerncape.gov.za/sites/www.westerncape.gov.za/files/sa-id-number-new.png

Easiest ZA ID validation is the length. The length must be exactly 13 integers.

Example:

from za_id_number.za_id_number import SouthAfricanIdentityValidate

if __name__ == "__main__":
    za_validation = SouthAfricanIdentityValidate("9202204720082")
    valid = za_validation.validate()
    za_identity = za_validation.identity()
    print(f"Valid: {valid}, Identity: {za_identity}")

Logging

As its a library logging is off by default. To get a logger for the library you can use the following example:

    logger = SouthAfricanIdentityValidate.get_logger(level=logging.DEBUG)
    # logger = logging.getLogger("za_id_number")
    # logger.removeHandler(logging.NullHandler())
    # logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
    za_validation = SouthAfricanIdentityValidate("9202204720082")
    valid = za_validation.validate()
    za_identity = za_validation.identity()
    logger.info(f"Valid: {valid}, Identity: {za_identity}")
    print(SouthAfricanIdentityValidate("99").identity_length())

Classes:

# Validation class, inherits from SouthAfricanIdentityNumber
validate_id_obj = SouthAfricanIdentityValidate("9001245289086")

# SouthAfricanIdentityNumber class
identity_obj = SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9001245289086")

# SouthAfricanIdentityGenerate class
generated_id_obj = SouthAfricanIdentityGenerate()

Class Attributes:

# SouthAfricanIdentityValidate
SouthAfricanIdentityValidate("9202204720082").valid

# SouthAfricanIdentityNumber
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").id_number
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").birthdate
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").year
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").month
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").day
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").gender
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").citizenship
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").age

Methods:

# SouthAfricanIdentityNumber class
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").get_age()
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").get_citizenship()
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").get_gender()
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").calculate_birthday()
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").get_month()
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").get_year()
SouthAfricanIdentityNumber("9202204720082").get_day()


# SouthAfricanIdentityValidate class
# Inherits from SouthAfricanIdentityNumber
# All attributes and methods available
SouthAfricanIdentityValidate("9202204720082").valid_birth_date()
SouthAfricanIdentityValidate("9202204720082").validate()
SouthAfricanIdentityValidate("9202204720082").identity()
SouthAfricanIdentityValidate("9202204720082").identity_length()

# SouthAfricanIdentityGenerate class
# Inherits from SouthAfricanIdentityValidate
# All attributes and methods available
# gender and citizenship can be specified for specific random
# id numbers
SouthAfricanIdentityGenerate()
# or
SouthAfricanIdentityGenerate(gender="male", citizenship='citizen')
# or
from za_id_number.constants import Gender, CitizenshipClass
SouthAfricanIdentityGenerate(gender=Gender.FEMALE, citizenship=CitizenshipClass.CITIZEN_BORN)
# generate random ID number without using class obj
generate_random_id()

Questions/Ideas/Feedback

christogoosen@gmail.com christo@anomaloustech.co.za

Future features:

• Ask for some please

CI/CD

Covers python:

• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11
• 3.12
• 3.13 Check CI: https://github.com/c-goosen/za_identity_number/actions

Keeping up with python release cycle: https://devguide.python.org/versions/

Releases:

• 0.0.7
  • Upgrade packages idenitified by github security scanning
  • Remove loguru
  • Disable loggin in library by default
  • Fixed some exceptions
  • Removed luhn library for fast-luhn
  • fast-luhn adds generate and complete functions
  • Generate Random ID numbers
  • Generate random luhn numbers of length n
• 0.0.8
  • Removed fast-luhn library as pyo3 rust implementation not building for Mac or python greater than 3.8
  • Simplified library.
  • Security issues in dependencies updated
• 0.0.9
  • Add python 3.12 to CI
  • Security updates in dependencies
• 0.1.0
  • Deprecated python versions below 3.9
  • Update dependencies