Mass data generator for dev pruposes. This module generates csv data with as many records as needed, creating people, credit cards, bank accounts and/or bank transactions fake data to be used in developing, data science or any purposes.

Created data are invented and random, but some (credit cards) are generated using real validation algorithm.

When generating person data, the namefake.com API is used. Main module may request a proportional number of names and birthdays and mix queried data in order to increase performance, reducing requests to the external RESTful service.

Note: if you system is configured with ulimits, you may need to generate larger sets in more than one execution; with my cpu limit set to 180, I generate 1M people per time.

• To run interactivelly, go to Run from command line.
• To run from python shell, skip to Run from python console.
• For automatic tests, skip to Automatic tests.
• About logs, please move to the corresponding topic, Logs.
• Instructions on advanced/technical documentation, go to Documentation.
• Or click to skip to the To do list.

From the project's root directory, run the following command and follow instructions to
generate any number of registries and save them to a csv file:

python -m datagenerator

from datagenerator.Person import Person
for i in range(3):
    p = Person()
    p.create()
    if i == 0: print(','.join(p.info().keys()))
    print(p.csv())

from datagenerator.CreditCard import CreditCard
cc = CreditCard(person=p)
cc.info()
cc.csv()

from datagenerator.BankAccount import BankAccount
acc = BankAccount(person=p); acc.info()

from datagenerator.BankTransaction import BankTransaction
t = BankTransaction(account=acc, value=1000.00, description='Opening deposit'); t.info()
t = BankTransaction(account=acc, value=-100.00, description='Withdrawl'); t.csv()

Python tests are available using unittest:

python -m unittest tests/test_*

Logs are recorded in the 'logs' directory in the project's root.
Please see docs/logs if you wish to access samples of the generated logs.

See docs for documentation. Or run:

python -c "import datagenerator; help(datagenerator)"
python -c "import datagenerator.Person; help(datagenerator.Person)"
python -c "import datagenerator.CreditCard; help(datagenerator.CreditCard)"
python -c "import datagenerator.BankAccount; help(datagenerator.BankAccount)"
python -c "import datagenerator.BankTransaction; help(datagenerator.BankTransaction)"

• Add automatic tests.
• Automatic rotation of log files.
• Log classes other than Person.
• Document main module.