pietz

import re
from unidecode import unidecode


def fingerprint(string):
    # change all characters to their lowercase representation
    string = string.lower()
    # remove all punctuation and control characters
    string = re.sub("[^A-Za-z0-9 ]+", "", string)
    # normalize extended western characters to their ASCII representation

Irio

import unicodedata

def normalize_string(string):
    if isinstance(string, str):
        nfkd_form = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', string.lower())
        return nfkd_form.encode('ASCII', 'ignore').decode('utf-8')

avalanchy

def _uppercase_for_dict_keys(lower_dict):
    upper_dict = {}
    for k, v in lower_dict.items():
        if isinstance(v, dict):
            v = _uppercase_for_dict_keys(v)
        upper_dict[k.upper()] = v
    return upper_dict

phillipsm

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# We've now imported the two packages that will do the heavy lifting
# for us, reqeusts and BeautifulSoup

# Let's put the URL of the page we want to scrape in a variable
# so that our code down below can be a little cleaner
url_to_scrape = 'http://apps2.polkcountyiowa.gov/inmatesontheweb/'

cjdd3b

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import re, string
from unidecode import unidecode

PUNCTUATION = re.compile('[%s]' % re.escape(string.punctuation))

class Fingerprinter(object):
    '''
    Python implementation of Google Refine fingerprinting algorithm described here:

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