How to Validate a Last Name in Python

Name validation is an excellent safeguard against a whole range of potentially bad outcomes, especially when dealing with customer relations and legal matters. To assist in verifying name accuracy, let’s set up a last name validation system in a few easy steps.

This is going to be super easy. First, client installation.

pip install cloudmersive-validate-api-client

And now for our code to call the name_validate_last_name function. This will require creation of an API instance using a key. Then that instance will allow us to call the before-mentioned function.

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_validate_api_client
from cloudmersive_validate_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.NameApi(cloudmersive_validate_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.LastNameValidationRequest() # LastNameValidationRequest | Validation request information
try:
# Validate a last name
api_response = api_instance.name_validate_last_name(input)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling NameApi->name_validate_last_name: %s\n" % e)

And voila! Our surname validator is done!