"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > This is all a bit OT. Before we close the thread down
Do you have a warrant for that? > , let me leave > you with one warning: > Beware of enthusiastic maintenance programmers on a mission to clean up > the dirty names in your database: > E.g. (1) "Karim bin Md" may not appreciate getting a letter addressed > to "Dr Karim Bin" (Md is an abbreviation of Muhammad). > E.g. (2) Billing job barfs on a customer who has no given names and no > family name. Inspection reveals that he is over-endowed in the title > department: "Mr Earl King". [...] Heh. I guess the people who really know about that kind of thing are the "record linkage" people (this one is a project worked on by c.l.py's own Tim Churches, and has produced some Python code): http://datamining.anu.edu.au/projects/linkage.html John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
