What I generally do is use https://pypi.org/project/nameparser/
While Clive is correct, I haven’t seen name parser fail at breaking it apart
correct so far.
- Benjamin
> On Jul 8, 2020, at 6:43 PM, Clive Bruton <cl...@indx.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On 7 Jul 2020, at 22:58, Kai Kobschätzki wrote:
>
>> I render one input field surname. And if the user writes one string in
>> the input field it should be saved to surname (so forename is None). If
>> the user writes two strings (separated through a white space) than the
>> first part should be saved to forename and the second one to surname
>> (and perhaps I want to make some string manipulation further).
>
> This isn't a "safe" way of delineating forename/surname. It isn't that
> uncommon for people to have unhyphenated compound surnames, eg:
>
> Bruce Smith Jones
>
> To see the confusion this may cause:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle
>
> It is better to ask for the forename input separately, or at least give the
> user the option to override your decision.
>
>
> -- Clive
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