Development Status
- 5 - Production/Stable
Intended Audience
- Developers
License
- OSI Approved :: MIT License
Operating System
- OS Independent
Programming Language
- Python
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3 :: Only
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
- Python :: 3.12
- Python :: 3.13
- Python :: 3.14
- Python :: Implementation :: CPython
- Python :: Implementation :: PyPy
Topic
- Software Development
- Software Development :: Testing
- Utilities
Mimesis: The Fake Data Generator
Documentation: https://mimesis.name/
Mimesis (/mɪˈmiːsɪs) is a robust data generator for Python that can produce a wide range of fake data in various languages.
The key features are:
- Multilingual: Supports 46 different locales.
- Extensibility: Supports custom data providers and custom field handlers.
- Ease of use: Features a simple design and clear documentation for straightforward data generation.
- Performance: Widely recognized as the fastest data generator among Python solutions.
- Data variety: Includes various data providers designed for different use cases.
- Schema-based generators: Offers schema-based data generators to effortlessly produce data of any complexity.
- Relational data: Supports generating relational data with references between schemas for complex data structures.
- Intuitive: Great editor support. Fully typed, thus autocompletion almost everywhere.
Installation
[!IMPORTANT] To work with Mimesis on Python versions 3.8 and 3.9, the final compatible version is Mimesis 11.1.0. Install this specific version to ensure compatibility.
[!WARNING] Starting from version 19.0.0, Mimesis has dropped support for builtin providers.
To install mimesis, use pip:
~ pip install mimesis
Documentation
You can find the complete documentation on the Read the Docs.
It is divided into several sections:
- About Mimesis
- Quickstart
- Locales
- Data Providers
- Structured Data Generation
- Random and Seed
- Integration with factory_boy
- API Reference
- Changelog
You can improve it by sending pull requests to this repository.
Usage
The library is exceptionally user-friendly, and it only requires you to import a Data Provider object that corresponds to the desired data type.
For instance, the Person provider can be imported to access personal information, including name, surname, email, and other related fields:
from mimesis import Person
from mimesis.locales import Locale
person = Person(Locale.EN)
person.full_name()
# Output: 'Brande Sears'
person.email(domains=['example.com'])
# Output: 'roccelline1878@example.com'
person.email(domains=['mimesis.name'], unique=True)
# Output: 'f272a05d39ec46fdac5be4ac7be45f3f@mimesis.name'
person.telephone(mask='1-4##-8##-5##3')
# Output: '1-436-896-5213'
License
Mimesis is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
