# # Gramps - a GTK+/GNOME based genealogy program # # Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Donald N. Allingham # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # """ Provide soundex calculation """ #------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # Standard python modules # #------------------------------------------------------------------------- import string import unicodedata #------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # constants # #------------------------------------------------------------------------- IGNORE = "HW~!@#$%^&*()_+=-`[]\|;:'/?.,<>\" \t\f\v" TABLE = string.maketrans('ABCDEFGIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ', '012301202245501262301202') #------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # soundex - returns the soundex value for the specified string # #------------------------------------------------------------------------- def soundex(strval): "Return the soundex value to a string argument." strval = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(strval.upper().strip())).encode('ASCII', 'ignore') if not strval: return "Z000" strval = strval.encode('iso-8859-1') str2 = strval[0] strval = strval.translate(TABLE, IGNORE) if not strval: return "Z000" prev = strval[0] for character in strval[1:]: if character != prev and character != "0": str2 = str2 + character prev = character # pad with zeros str2 = str2+"0000" return str2[:4] #------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # compare - compares the soundex values of two strings # #------------------------------------------------------------------------- def compare(str1, str2): "1 if strings are close. 0 otherwise." return soundex(str1) == soundex(str2)