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Python API wrapper to determine the gender of a personal name
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Extract Gender
# use hammock from https://github.com/kadirpekel/hammock
from hammock import Hammock as GendreAPI
gendre = GendreAPI("http://api.namsor.com/onomastics/api/json/gendre")
# example call to GendRE API, will automatically recognize country/culture and return gender
resp = gendre('Jean','Parker').GET()
print (resp.json().get('gender'))
# returns: female
# gendre('Jean','Marchand') would return 'male'
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