[python] Adding address parser Python API

python/postal/parser.py

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+import _parser
+from postal.text.encoding import safe_decode
+
+DEFAULT_LANGUAGES = ('en',)
+
+
+def parse_address(address, language=None, country=None):
+    '''
+    @param address: the address as either Unicode or a UTF-8 encoded string
+    @param language (optional): language code
+    @param country (optional): country code
+    '''
+    address = safe_decode(address, 'utf-8')
+    return _parser.parse_address(address, language=language, country=country)