from __future__ import unicode_literals import re from geodata.encoding import safe_decode name_prefixes = ['{} '.format(s) for s in ( 'city of', 'township of', 'regional municipality of', 'municipality of', 'borough of', 'london borough of', 'town of', )] name_suffixes = [' {}'.format(s) for s in ( 'township', 'municipality', )] name_prefix_regex = re.compile('^(?:{})'.format('|'.join(name_prefixes)), re.I | re.UNICODE) name_suffix_regex = re.compile('(?:{})$'.format('|'.join(name_suffixes)), re.I | re.UNICODE) def replace_name_prefixes(name): name = safe_decode(name) return name_prefix_regex.sub('', name) def replace_name_suffixes(name): name = safe_decode(name) return name_suffix_regex.sub('', name)