v0.3.9

• Separate suffixes that are acronyms to handle periods differently, fixes #29, #21
• Don't find titles after first name is filled, fixes (#27)
• Add "chair" titles (#37)

v0.3.8

• Fixes for #36, better handling of roman numerals at the end of a name

v0.3.7

• Speed improvement, 3x faster
• Make HumanName instances pickleable

v0.3.6

• Fix strings that start with conjunctions (#20)
• handle assigning lists of names to a name attribute
• support dictionary-like assignment of name attributes

v0.3.5

• Fix handling of string encoding in python 2.x (#34)
• Add support for dictionary key access, e.g. name['first']
• add 'santa' to prefixes, add 'cpa', 'csm', 'phr', 'pmp' to suffixes (#35)
• Fix prefixes before multi-part last names (#23)
• Fix capitalization bug (#30)

v0.3.4

• Fix #24, handle first name also a prefix
• Fix #26, last name comma format when lastname is also a title

v0.3.3

• Allow suffixes to be chained (#8)
• Handle trailing suffix in last name comma format (#3). Removes support for titles with periods but no spaces in them, e.g. "Lt.Gen.". (#21)

v0.3.2

• Retain original string in "original" attribute.
• Collapse white space when using custom string format.
• Fix #19, single comma name format may have trailing suffix

v0.3.1

Fix PyPi package missing config module.

v0.3.0

Initial refactoring of the constants and configurations system to make it easier to modify (#1). You can now adjust the parser's configuration like so:

>>> from nameparser import HumanName
>>> from nameparser.config import CONSTANTS
>>> CONSTANTS.titles.add('dean', 'Chemistry')
>>> hn = HumanName("Assoc Dean of Chemistry Robert Johns")
>>> hn
<HumanName : [
    Title: 'Assoc Dean of Chemistry'
    First: 'Robert'
    Middle: ''
    Last: 'Johns'
    Suffix: ''
    Nickname: ''
]>

New instructions for customizing the parser are included in the new documentation.

Install:

pip install nameparser