tjnh05 / familytreemaker

Generates a family tree graph from a simple text file

familytreemaker

This program creates family tree graphs from simple text files.

The input file format is very simple, you describe persons of your family line by line, children just have to follow parents in the file. Persons can be repeated as long as they keep the same name or id. An example is given in the file LouisXIVfamily.txt.

Note: This branch version is optimized for chinese. If other language for input text file is used, command option gender (-g) has to be used to specify words of male and female, since their default values are set as "男" and "女" instead of origin "M" and "F".

Installation

Simply clone the repo or install package familytree by pip as shown below:

pip install familytree

This script outputs a graph descriptor in DOT format. To make the image containing the graph, you will need a graph drawer such as [GraphViz] 1.

Usage

usage: familytreemaker.py [-h] [-a ANCESTOR] [-g GENDER] [-v INFOLEVEL]
                          [-o OUTFILE]
                          INPUTFILE

Generates a family tree graph from a simple text file

positional arguments:
  INPUTFILE     the formatted text file representing the family

optional arguments:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit
  -a ANCESTOR   make the family tree from an ancestor (if omitted, the program
                will try to find an ancestor)
  -g GENDER     customized gender string, for example: "男,女" or "M,F"
  -v INFOLEVEL  Information level (0/1/2) to output. (0 - only name and
                surfname will be output; 1 - time of birthday and deathday
                will be invisable; 2 - all information will be output)
  -o OUTFILE    file name for output

The sample family descriptor LouisXIVfamily.txt is here to show you the usage. Simply run:

python familytreemaker.py -a "王灿文" -v2 -o LouisXIVfamily.dot LouisXIVfamily.txt && \
    dot -Tsvg -o LouisXIVfamily.svg LouisXIVfamily.dot

If package familytree has been installed by pip, commands below can be performed to populate:

python -m familytree.familytreemaker -a "王灿文" -v2 -o LouisXIVfamily.dot LouisXIVfamily.txt && \
    dot -Tsvg -o LouisXIVfamily.svg LouisXIVfamily.dot

It will generate the tree from the infos in LouisXIVfamily.txt, starting from 王灿文 and saving the image in LouisXIVfamily.svg.