International Address formatter

This is a address formatter that can format addresses in multiple formats that are common in different countries.

For formatting the addresses the worldwide.yml from OpenCageData address-formatting repository is used to format the address according to customs in the country that is been encoded.

See README.md in the repository for more information.

Changelog

v1.0.2

• Update worldwide.yml data file (thanks @kimryan)

v1.0.1

• Bugfix: Package did not find its data-file because of wrong path calculation

v1.0

• Initial release, split out of the osmgeocoder project

API documentation

The complete project contains actually only one class:

AddressFormatter

Publicly accessible method prototypes are:

def __init__(self, config=None):
    pass

def format(self, address, country=None):
    pass

def one_line(self, address, country=None):
    pass

__init__

Initialize the address formatter

• config: (optional) override default config file to use for the address formatter, defaults to config file included in this package

format

Format an address in the default layout used in the specified country. Return value may contain line breaks.

• address: Dictionary that contains the address parts, see below for recognized keys
• country: Country code of the formatting template to use

Recognized keys in address:

• attention
• house
• road
• house_number
• postcode
• city
• town
• village
• county
• state
• country
• suburb
• city_district
• state_district
• state_code
• neighbourhood

one_line

Works the same as format but returns a single line of text.