README.rst

gedcompy

Python library to parse and work with GEDCOM (genealogy/family tree) files.

It's goal is to support GEDCOM v5.5 (specification here).

This is released under the GNU General Public Licence version 3 (or at your option, a later version). See the file LICENCE for more.

Example Usage

>>> import gedcom
>>> gedcomfile = gedcom.parse("myfamilytree.ged")
>>> for person in gedcomfile.individuals:
...    firstname, lastname = person.name
...    print "{0} {1} is in the file".format(firstname, lastname)

Contributing

Run all unitttests with tox.