What is Mimesis?
It is a high-performance fake data generator for Python, which provides data for a variety of purposes in a variety of languages. The fake data could be used to populate a testing database, create fake API endpoints, create JSON and XML files of arbitrary structure, anonymize data taken from production and etc.
Mimesis is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
Mimesis is an open source tool with 4.3K GitHub stars and 323 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Mimesis's open source repository on GitHub
Mimesis's Features
- Easy: Designed to be easy to use and learn
- Multilingual: Supports data for a lot of languages
- Performance: The fastest data generator available for Python
- Data variety: Supports a lot of data providers for a variety of purposes
- Country-specific data providers: Provides data specific only for some countries
- Extensibility: You can create your own data providers and use them with Mimesis
- Generic data provider: The simplified access to all the providers from a single object
- Zero hard dependencies: Does not require any modules other than the Python standard library
- Schema-based generators: Provides an easy mechanism to generate data by the schema of any complexity
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