changes from 2.1 to 2.2

-----------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- VÖEN (Vergi ödəyicisinin eyniləşdirmə nömrəsi, Azerbaijan tax number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- Belgian OGM-VCS

(thanks Cédric Krier)

- Leitweg-ID, a buyer reference or routing identifier for electronic invoices

(thanks Tuukka Tolvanen)

- European Excise Number (thanks Cédric Krier)

- n° d'accise (French number to identify taxpayers of excise taxes)

(thanks Cédric Krier)

- RCS (French trade registration number for commercial companies)

(thanks Fabien MICHEL)

- NUIT (Número Único de Identificação Tributaria, Mozambique tax number)

(thanks Luca and Leandro Regueiro)

- NINEA (Numéro d'Identification Nationale des Entreprises et Associations, Senegal tax number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

* Fix handling of decimals in Application Identifiers (thanks zipus)

* Update list of valid Chinese counties (thanks 电子旅人 and Luca)

* Mark more Romanian CNP county codes as valid (thanks luella-s)

* Support Latvian personal codes issued after 2017 (thanks José Luis López Pino)

* Provide aliases for Estonian numbers (thanks Joni Saarinen)

* Add validation of country code in BIC (thanks Luuk Gubbels)

* Add function to convert a French VAT number into a SIREN (thanks Fabien MICHEL)

* Add a function to format a French SIREN (thanks Fabien MICHEL)

* Add extra validation of Belgian VAT numbers (thanks Antonio Ginestar)

* Add support for nace revision 2.1 (thanks KathrinM)

* Support the new Romanian ONRC format (thanks dotbit1)

* Support new format for Brazilian CNPJ (thanks Cloves Oliveira)

changes from 2.0 to 2.1

-----------------------

* Add python_requires to setup.py to avoid installation with older Python versions

(thanks Cédric Krier)

* Remove superfluous modulus operation in Japanese Individual Number

(thanks Luca Sicurello)

changes from 1.20 to 2.0

------------------------

* Only support Python 3.8 and newer (drop Python 2 support so major version bump)

* Include type hints for mypy (thanks David Salvisberg)

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- eID Number (Belgian electronic Identity Card Number) (thanks Jeff Horemans)

- SSN, INSZ, NISS (Belgian social security number) (thanks Jeff Horemans)

- CAE (Código de Actividad y Establecimiento, Spanish activity establishment code)

(thanks Quique Porta)

- NIK (Nomor Induk Kependudukan, Indonesian identity number)

- ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) (thanks Henning Kage)

- IN (個人番号, kojin bangō, Japanese Individual Number) (thanks Luca Sicurello)

- Identiteitskaartnummer, Paspoortnummer (the Dutch passport number)

(thanks Jeff Horemans)

- ОГРН, OGRN, PSRN, ОГРНИП, OGRNIP (Russian Primary State Registration Number)

(thanks Ivan Stavropoltsev)

* Fix Czech RČ check digit validation (thanks Jan Chaloupecky)

* Support Ecuador public RUC with juridical format (thanks Leandro)

* Allow Uruguay RUT numbers starting with 22

* Add missing music industry ISRC country codes (thanks Victor Sordoillet)

* Support 16 digit Indonesian NPWP numbers (thanks Chris Smola)

* Adjust Swiss uid module to accept numbers without CHE prefix (thanks Jeff Horemans)

* Update Irish PPS validator to support new numbers (thanks Olly Middleton)

* Add missing vat alias for Thailand VAT number (thanks Leandro Regueiro)

* Add more tests for the Verhoeff implementation

* Ensure that certificate verification can be configured using the verify

argument when using web services

* The check_dgii() and search_dgii() functions from the Dominican Republic Cedula

and RNC modules no longer work due to a change in the DGII online web service

* Various small code cleanups (thanks David Salvisberg)

* Various small fixes to update scripts

* The stdnum.util.to_unicode() function is now deprecated and will be removed

in an upcoming release

changes from 1.19 to 1.20

-------------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- BC PHN (British Columbia Personal Health Number) (thanks Ömer Boratav)

- EC Number (European Community number) (thanks Daniel Weber)

- VID (Indian personal virtual identity number) (thanks Atul Deolekar)

* Fix typo in German Umsatzsteur Identifikationnummer (thanks Александр Кизеев)

* Ensure EU VAT numbers don't accept duplicate country codes

* Fix vatin number compacting for "EU" VAT numbers (thanks Davide Walder)

* Add check digit validation to French NIF (thanks Kevin Dagostino)

* Fix Ukrainian EDRPOU check digit calculation (thanks sector119)

changes from 1.18 to 1.19

-------------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- Tax Registration Number (الرقم الضريبي, Egypt tax number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- Postcode (the Spanish postal code) (thanks Víctor)

- NIFp (Numéro d'Identification Fiscale Permanent, Guinea tax number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- BIS (Belgian BIS number) (thanks Jeff Horemans)

- Matična številka poslovnega registra (Corporate Registration Number) (thanks Blaž Bregar)

- OSS (European VAT on e-Commerce - One Stop Shop) (thanks Sergi Almacellas Abellana)

* Extend the validation of the Albanian NIPT (NUIS) number (thanks Julien Launois)

* Support different date formats in parsing GS1-128 application identifiers

* Add get_county() function to Romanian CNP (thanks RaduBorzea)

* Add functionality to get gender from Belgian National Number (thanks Jeff Horemans)

* Add support for Finland HETU new century indicating signs (thanks Maks Turtiainen)

* Add functionality to get (partial) birth date from Belgian National Number

(thanks Jeff Horemans)

* Extend validation of Canadian SIN (thanks Marcel Lecker)

* Fix Belarusian UNP online validation

* Various typo and documentation fixes (thanks valeriko, Dimitri Papadopoulos,

Ali-Akber Saifee and Chales Horn)

* Add contribution information to documentation

* Test suite improvements (including checking file headers)

changes from 1.17 to 1.18

-------------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- NN, NISS (Belgian national number) (thanks Cédric Krier)

- CFI (ISO 10962 Classification of Financial Instruments)

- Czech bank account number (thanks Petr Přikryl)

- NIF, sometimes N.I.F. (Numéro d'Identification Fiscale, Algeria tax number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- V-number (Vinnutal, Faroe Islands tax number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number, Ghana tax number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- PIN (Personal Identification Number, Kenya tax number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- ICE (Identifiant Commun de l’Entreprise, التعريف الموحد للمقاولة, Morocco tax number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- PIB (Poreski Identifikacioni Broj, Montenegro tax number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- ЕДБ (Едниствен Даночен Број, North Macedonia tax number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- CNIC number (Pakistani Computerised National Identity Card number)

(thanks Syed Haseeb Shah)

- Enotna matična številka občana (Unique Master Citizen Number)

(thanks Blaž Bregar)

- MF (Matricule Fiscal, Tunisia tax number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)

* Fix disabling check digit validation of Mexican CURP (thanks guyskk)

* Support special validation of La Post SIRET (thanks BIGBen99 and Cédric Krier)

* Fix support for "I" and "O" in CUSIP number (thanks Thomas Kavanagh)

* Calculate ISO 7064 Mod 97, 10 check digits in the range 02-98 for IBAN

(thanks David Svenson)

* Fix German OffeneRegister lookups (change of URL and of data structure)

* Add extra court alias for Berlin in German Handelsregisternummer (thanks Romuald R)

* Ensure certificate for the Belarus VAT number check_nalog() lookup is included

* Support parsing incomplete dates in GS1-128 (thanks Alexis de Lattre)

* Improve validation of CAS Registry Number

* Typo fixes (thanks Vladimir and Dimitri Papadopoulos)

* Add a check_uid() function to the stdnum.ch.uid module

* All validation exceptions should now inherit from ValueError

* Switch from nose to pytest as test runner

changes from 1.16 to 1.17

-------------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- EPIC (Electoral Photo Identity Card, Indian Voter ID)

(thanks Gaurav Chauhan)

- GSTIN (Goods and Services Tax identification number, Indian VAT number)

(thanks Gaurav Chauhan)

- ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) (thanks Nuno André)

- CC (Número de Cartão de Cidadão, Portuguese Identity number)

(thanks David Vaz)

- Postcode (the Swedish postal code) (thanks Michele Ciccozzi)

- MOA (Thailand Memorandum of Association Number) (thanks Piruin Panichphol)

- PIN (Thailand Personal Identification Number) (thanks Piruin Panichphol)

- TIN (Thailand Taxpayer Identification Number) (thanks Piruin Panichphol)

* Add ENCF validation support for Dominican Republic NCF

(thanks Cristopher Ortega)

* Add new e-CF types to Dominican Republic NCF (thanks Frank Roberto Chavez Sosa)

* Improve French NIF validation (thanks Dimitri Papadopoulos)

* Drop support for Python 2.6 and 3.4

* Fix parsing of empty fields in Dominican Republic DGII checking

(thanks Andres Rodriguez)

* Fix handling of empty worksheet in Belgian bank download

(thanks Dimitri Papadopoulos)

* Fix detection of natural RUC values (thanks Victor Rodriguez)

* Fix Belarus VAT number online lookup again

* Fixes for problems with loading IMSI data from Wikipedia and dealing with

inconsistencies

* Remove South Korean BRN Fair Trade Commission website check due to CAPTCHA

* Various code and documentation improvements (thanks Dimitri Papadopoulos and Gaurav Chauhan)

changes from 1.15 to 1.16

-------------------------

* Support XI country code for Northern Ireland VAT numbers

(thanks Alexis de Lattre)

* Switch data source for Austrian postal codes

(thanks Bernd Schlapsi)

* Fix Belarus VAT number online lookup

changes from 1.14 to 1.15

-------------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- CUI or CIF (Codul Unic de Înregistrare, Romanian company identifier)

- PEID (Liechtenstein tax code for individuals and entities)

(thanks Matthias Schmid)

- ЄДРПОУ, EDRPOU (Identifier for enterprises and organizations in Ukraine)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- РНОКПП, RNTRC (Individual taxpayer registration number in Ukraine)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

* Make list of EU member states part of public API

* Retain RO prefix in Romanian VAT numbers

* Support international VAT numbers that are only valid with country prefix

* Expanded validation for Belgian VAT numbers

* Use ABN as Australian VAT number

* Remove GB from EU member states

changes from 1.13 to 1.14

-------------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- УНП, UNP (Учетный номер плательщика, the Belarus VAT number)

- AIC (Italian code for identification of drugs) (thanks Fabrizio Montanari)

- Company Number (מספר חברה, or short ח.פ. Israeli company number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- NIT (Número de Identificación Tributaria, El Salvador tax number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- USCC (Unified Social Credit Code, 统一社会信用代码, China tax number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- UEN (Singapore's Unique Entity Number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- BRN (사업자 등록 번호, South Korea Business Registration Number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- MST (Mã số thuế, Vietnam tax number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- NPWP (Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, Indonesian VAT Number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- UBN (Unified Business Number, 統一編號, Taiwanese tax number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- UTR (United Kingdom Unique Taxpayer Reference) (thanks Mohammed Salman)

- ONRC (Ordine din Registrul Comerţului, Romanian Trade Register identifier)

(thanks dotbit1)

- GS1-128 (Standard to encode product information in Code 128 barcodes)

(thanks Sergi Almacellas Abellana)

- VATIN (International value added tax identification number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

* Fix missing Dominican Republic NCF document types (thanks Gustavo Valverde)

* Fix issue with extra plus or minus in Swedish Personnummer

(thanks balderman)

* Update Dominican Republic DGII endpoint (thanks Gustavo Valverde)

* Support validating temporary Finnish personal identity codes

(thanks Aleksi Hoffman)

* Fix misleading docstring in se.personnummer.get_birth_date()

(thanks Leon Sandøy)

* Improve birth date validation in Danish CPR (thanks Leon Sandøy)

* Add birth date validating in Norwegian Fødselsnummer (thanks Leon Sandøy)

* Add missing vat aliases for a number of countries (thanks Leandro Regueiro)

* Use HTTPS instead of HTTP fox VIES lookups (thanks grzekru)

* Switch to HTTPS URLs where possible

* Support 6 as third digit in Ecuadorian CI (thanks Christopher Ormaza)

* Add an online check for South Korean BRN

* Fix unescaping in Dominican Republic RNC online check (thanks evaldez89)

* Support foreign residents for Romanian CNP (thanks dotbit1)

changes from 1.12 to 1.13

-------------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- ESR, ISR, QR-reference (reference number on Swiss payment slips)

(thanks Kurt Keller)

- ID number (South African Identity Document number)

* Add format function for ISO 11649 numbers (thanks Kurt Keller)

* Add support for Python 3.8 (thanks Sergi Almacellas Abellana)

* Clarify that the Italian Codice Fiscale can also be the IVA for companies

(thanks Nicholas Fiorentini)

* Support the new Dutch btw-identificatienummer (thanks Cas Vissers,

Jeroen van Heiningen, Jerome Hanke, Nicolas Martinelli, Ronald Portier and

Tim Muller)

* Extend test for Argentinian CUIT to check first two digits

* Add more country codes to ISIN (thanks nocluebutalotofit, Anwar Baroudi and

alexbond73)

changes from 1.11 to 1.12

-------------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- NRT (Número de Registre Tributari, Andorra tax number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- CPF (Cédula de Persona Física, Costa Rica physical person ID number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- CPJ (Cédula de Persona Jurídica, Costa Rica tax number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- CR (Cédula de Residencia, Costa Rica foreigners ID number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- NIT (Número de Identificación Tributaria, Guatemala tax number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- Identity Number (Mispar Zehut, מספר זהות, Israeli identity number)

- CN (法人番号, hōjin bangō, Japanese Corporate Number)

(thanks Alan Hettinger)

- RRN (South Korean resident registration number)

(thanks Dimitri Papadopoulos)

- IRD number (New Zealand Inland Revenue Department (Te Tari Tāke) number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- CUI (Cédula Única de Identidad, Peruvian identity number)

- RUC (Registro Único de Contribuyentes, Peruvian company tax number)

- RUC number (Registro Único de Contribuyentes, Paraguay tax number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- VKN (Vergi Kimlik Numarası, Turkish tax identification number)

(thanks Leandro Regueiro)

- RUT (Registro Único Tributario, Uruguay tax number)

(Leandro Regueiro)

- RIF (Registro de Identificación Fiscal, Venezuelan VAT number)

(thanks Kevin Kaiser)

- TIN (South African Tax Identification Number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)

* Support GTIN (EAN-14) validation as part of EAN

(thanks Sergi Almacellas Abellana)

* Support Dominican Republic e-CF within NCF (thanks Jeffry Jesus De La Rosa)

* Fix Dominican Republic DGII lookups of NCF (thanks Jeffry Jesus De La Rosa)

* Fix German Handelsregisternummer to not confuse Hamburg with Homburg and to

accept shorter numbers (thanks Kevin Kaiser)

* Support lookups of German Handelsregisternummer in OffeneRegister.de web

service

* Handle - and + sign correctly in Swedish Personnummer

(thanks Amin Solhizadeh)

* Provide various personalid and vat aliases for existing numbers

(thanks Andreas Häber)

* Improve descriptions of Spanish codes (thanks Gerard Dalmau)

* Fix handling and normalisation of various Unicode digit representations

(thanks Helge Munk Jacobsen)

changes from 1.10 to 1.11

-------------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- DNI (Documento Nacional de Identidad, Argentinian national identity nr.)

- VNR, SVNR, VSNR (Versicherungsnummer, Austrian social security number)

- NI (Número de identidad, Cuban identity card numbers)

- AMKA (Αριθμός Μητρώου Κοινωνικής Ασφάλισης, Greek social security number)

- Asmens kodas (Lithuanian, personal numbers)

- MAC address (Media Access Control address)

- IDNO (Moldavian company identification number)

- CURP (Clave Única de Registro de Población, Mexican personal ID)

- Fødselsnummer (Norwegian birth number, the national identity number) (thanks Ilya Vihtinsky)

- New Zealand bank account number

- Personnummer (Swedish personal identity number) (thanks Ilya Vihtinsky)

* Code style improvements

* Change Dominican Republic DGII check URL to HTTPS (thanks Gustavo Valverde)

* Support Ecuadorian Cedula and RUC of foreigners (thanks Christopher Ormaza)

* Add format() function for Argentinian CUIT number (thanks Mario Puntin)

* Support passing formatted numbers to all get_birth_date() and similar functions

* Handle Dominican Republic DGII lookup returning multiple entities (thanks Andrés R)

changes from 1.9 to 1.10

------------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- Bitcoin address

- ISO 11649 (Structured Creditor Reference)

- ID number (Mauritian national identifier)

- Norwegian IBAN (International Bank Account Number)

- Konto nr. (Norwegian bank account number)

* Fix a bug in handling of Mexican tax numbers

* Improve Spanish CIF and NIF validation

* Update Dominican Republic NCF numbers online check

* Improve Unicode conversion for bytestrings

* Improvements to some corner cases in IBAN validation

* Documentation improvements

* Add stdnum.ru.vat as an alias for stdnum.ru.inn

changes from 1.8.1 to 1.9

-------------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- Postleitzahl (Austrian postal code)

- Abgabenkontonummer (Austrian tax identification number)

- Belgian IBAN (International Bank Account Number)

- Handelsregisternummer (German company register number)

- St.-Nr. (Steuernummer, German tax number)

- FIGI (Financial Instrument Global Identifier)

- Montenegro IBAN (International Bank Account Number)

* Have documentation rebuilt reproducibly (thanks Chris Lamb)

* Allow configuring the SOAP request timeout

* Support spaces in ISO 9362 (SWIFT) BIC codes

* Add check_dgii() to stdnum.do.cedula module

* Add validation for "individual" part of hetu (thanks Esa Halsti)

* Support new style of Dominican Republic NCF numbers

* Fix issue when using PySimpleSOAP for DGII lookups

* Fix an issue in splitting certain IMSI values

* Support building a universal wheel

* Documentation and code style improvements

changes from 1.8 to 1.8.1

-------------------------

* Fix a packaging issue in the long description

changes from 1.7 to 1.8

-----------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- NCF (Números de Comprobante Fiscal, Dominican Republic receipt number)

- Euro banknote serial numbers

- CAS RN (Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number)

- Aadhaar (Indian digital resident personal identity number)

(thanks Srikanth Lakshmanan)

- PAN (Permanent Account Number, Indian income tax identifier)

(thanks Srikanth Lakshmanan)

* Add functions for using the Dominican Republic DGII web service to validate

and search for RNC and NCF numbers

* Add/update whitelists for Dominican Republic RNC and Cedula

* Support zeep as preferred SOAP library (suds and pysimplesoap are tried

as fallback)

* Rename stdnum.iso9362 to stdnum.bic (iso9362 is deprecated but still

available for compatibility)

* Add tests for web services (not normally run to avoid unnecessary load)

* Fixes and improvement to the sample online validation service

Development of the NCF format validation and DGII web service validation

was funded by iterativo | http://iterativo.do

changes from 1.6 to 1.7

-----------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- BN (Canadian Business Number)

- SIN (Canadian Social Insurance Number)

- IdNr (Steuerliche Identifikationsnummer, German personal tax number)

(thanks Mohammed Salman of Holvi)

- Registrikood (Estonian organisation registration code)

(thanks Mohammed Salman of Holvi)

- Veronumero (Finnish individual tax number)

(thanks Mohammed Salman of Holvi)

- UPN (English Unique Pupil Number)

* Fix a bug in the Czech DIČ check digit calculation

* Fix conversion of 9 digit ISBN to ISBN13

* Fix a bug in the Damm is_valid() function

* More validation of 13-digit ISBN values

* More validation of ISMN values

* Various code and test improvements (100% branch coverage now)

* Documentation improvements

changes from 1.5 to 1.6

-----------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- CBU (Clave Bancaria Uniforme, Argentine bank account number)

(thanks Luciano Rossi)

- EIC (European Energy Identification Code)

- NACE (classification for businesses in the European Union)

- LEI (Legal Entity Identifier)

- n° TVA (taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, Monacan VAT number)

- PIB (Poreski Identifikacioni Broj, Serbian tax identification number)

* Add online check example that finds valid formats for a given number

* Fix support for Ñ in Spanish Referencia Catastral

* Updates to U.S. Employer Identification Number (thanks Greg Kuwaye)

* Various minor improvements

changes from 1.4 to 1.5

-----------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- ABN (Australian Business Number)

- ACN (Australian Company Number)

- TFN (Australian Tax File Number)

- CCC (Código Cuenta Corriente, Spanish Bank Account Code)

- CUPS (Código Unificado de Punto de Suministro, Supply Point Unified Code)

- Spanish IBAN (International Bank Account Number)

- Referencia Catastral (Spanish real estate property id)

* The IBAN module now support validating the country-specific part

* The Belgian VAT number is now also referenced as businessid

* Add a Tox configuration file

changes from 1.3 to 1.4

-----------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- NIF (Numéro d'Immatriculation Fiscale, French tax identification number)

provided by Dimitri Papadopoulos

- NIR (French personal identification number) provided by Dimitri

Papadopoulos

- SIRET (a French company establishment identification number) provided by

Yoann Aubineau

- NHS (United Kingdom National Health Service patient identifier)

- T.C. Kimlik No. (Turkish personal identification number)

* Add an implementation of the Damm algorithm

* Ensure data files are properly closed

* Documentation improvements

* Extend test suite

* A number of minor bug fixes and improvements

changes from 1.2 to 1.3

-----------------------

* Fix ISO 6346 check digit calculation (thanks Ronald Paloschi)

* Fix problem with check_vies_approx() (thanks Lionel Elie Mamane)

* Fix problem with SOAP client when using suds

* Include documentation that was previously on the Trac wiki

changes from 1.1 to 1.2

-----------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- Austrian Company Register Numbers

- CNPJ (Cadastro Nacional da Pessoa Jurídica, Brazilian company identifier)

- UID (Unternehmens-Identifikationsnummer, Swiss business identifier)

- VAT, MWST, TVA, IVA, TPV (Mehrwertsteuernummer, the Swiss VAT number)

- CUSIP number (financial security identification number)

- Wertpapierkennnummer (German securities identification code)

- Isikukood (Estonian Personal ID number)

- Finnish Association Identifier

- Y-tunnus (Finnish business identifier)

- SEDOL number (Stock Exchange Daily Official List number)

- IMO number (International Maritime Organization number)

- ISIN (International Securities Identification Number)

- RFC (Registro Federal de Contribuyentes, Mexican tax number)

- PESEL (Polish national identification number)

- REGON (Rejestr Gospodarki Narodowej, Polish register of economic units)

- ИНН (Идентификационный номер налогоплательщика, Russian tax identifier)

* Add an alternate VIES check (check_vies_approx()) that includes a proof

(certificate) that the check was performed

* Fall back to pysimplesoap if suds is unavailable

* Test and code quality improvements

changes from 1.0 to 1.1

-----------------------

* Add number formats based on the implementation in the vatnumber module:

- NIPT (Numri i Identifikimit për Personin e Tatueshëm, Albanian VAT number)

- CUIT (Código Único de Identificación Tributaria, Argentinian tax number)

- RUT (Rol Único Tributario, Chilean national tax number)

- NIT (Número De Identificación Tributaria, Colombian identity code)

- COE (Codice operatore economico, San Marino national tax number)

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- Cedula (Dominican Republic national identification number)

- RNC (Registro Nacional del Contribuyente, Dominican Republic tax number)

- Kennitala (Icelandic personal and organisation identity code, provided by

Tuomas Toivonen)

- VSK number (Virðisaukaskattsnúmer, Icelandic VAT number, provided by

Tuomas Toivonen)

- ISO 9362 (Business identifier codes, provided by Tony Bajan)

- MVA (Merverdiavgift, Norwegian VAT number, provided by Tuomas Toivonen)

- Orgnr (Organisasjonsnummer, Norwegian organisation number, provided by

Tuomas Toivonen)

- Orgnr (Organisationsnummer, Swedish company number, provided by Tomas

Thor Jonsson)

* Add Croatia to list of EU VAT numbers

* Update getcnloc script

* Various small fixes and additional tests for existing modules

changes from 0.9 to 1.0

-----------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- Swiss social security number ("Sozialversicherungsnummer")

- RIC No. (Chinese Resident Identity Card Number)

- CI (Cédula de identidad, Ecuadorian personal identity code)

- RUC (Registro Único de Contribuyentes, Ecuadorian company tax number)

- SEPA Identifier of the Creditor (AT-02)

- ISO 6346 (International standard for container identification)

- Codice Fiscale (Italian tax code for individuals)

- RTN (Routing transport number)

* Add support for 2013 extension of Irish PPS Numbers

* Update getisbn script

* Update getmybp URLs for Malaysian code lists

* Various other minor improvements

changes from 0.8.1 to 0.9

-------------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- Brin number (Dutch number for schools)

- Postcode (Dutch postal code)

- ATIN (U.S. Adoption Taxpayer Identification Number)

- EIN (U.S. Employer Identification Number)

- ITIN (U.S. Individual Taxpayer Identification Number)

- PTIN (U.S. Preparer Tax Identification Number)

- TIN (U.S. Taxpayer Identification Number)

* Try to replace Unicode characters with similar-looking ASCII characters

* Update getimsi script (thanks eneq123)

* Update getiban script

* Add proxy support to the stdnum.eu.vat.check_vies() function (thanks

Cédric Krier)

* Support newer United Kingdom VAT numbers

changes from 0.8 to 0.8.1

-------------------------

* Include some files that were missing from the source tarball

changes from 0.7 to 0.8

-----------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- NRIC No. (Malaysian National Registration Identity Card Number)

* All modules now provide a validate() function that throws an exception

that contains more information on the failure reason

* Documentation improvements

* Remove add_check_digit parameter from GRid's format() function

* Improvements to the tests

* Re-add Python3 support (now tested with Python 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3)

changes from 0.6 to 0.7

-----------------------

* Add modules for the following number formats:

- Onderwijsnummer (Dutch school number)

- BTW-nummer (Omzetbelastingnummer, the Dutch VAT number)

- HETU (Finnish personal identity code) as provided by Jussi Judin (#5)

- RČ (Rodné číslo, the Czech and Slovak birth numbers)

- SIREN (a French company identification number)

- FPA, ΦΠΑ (Foros Prostithemenis Aksias, the Greek VAT number)

- Ust ID Nr. (Umsatzsteur Identifikationnummer, the German VAT number)

- BTW, TVA, NWSt (Belgian VAT number)

- DNI (Documento nacional de identidad, Spanish personal identity codes)

- NIE (Número de Identificación de Extranjeros, Spanish foreigner number)

- CIF (Certificado de Identificación Fiscal, Spanish company tax number)

- NIF (Número de Identificación Fiscal, Spanish VAT number)

- PVN (Pievienotās vērtības nodokļa, Latvian VAT number)

- CVR (Momsregistreringsnummer, Danish VAT number)

- TVA (taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, Luxembourgian VAT number)

- CNP (Cod Numeric Personal, Romanian Numerical Personal Code)

- CF (Cod de înregistrare în scopuri de TVA, Romanian VAT number)

- Partita IVA (Italian VAT number)

- Αριθμός Εγγραφής Φ.Π.Α. (Cypriot VAT number)

- UID (Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer, Austrian VAT number)

- NIF (Número de identificação fiscal, Portuguese VAT number)

- IČ DPH (IČ pre daň z pridanej hodnoty, Slovak VAT number)

- ALV nro (Arvonlisäveronumero, Finnish VAT number)

- DIČ (Daňové identifikační číslo, Czech VAT number)

- ANUM (Közösségi adószám, Hungarian VAT number)

- VAT (Irish VAT number)

- KMKR (Käibemaksukohuslase, Estonian VAT number)

- PVM (Pridėtinės vertės mokestis mokėtojo kodas, Lithuanian VAT number)

- n° TVA (taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, French VAT number)

- VAT (Maltese VAT number)

- NIP (Numer Identyfikacji Podatkowej, Polish VAT number)

- ID za DDV (Davčna številka, Slovenian VAT number)

- VAT (Moms, Mervärdesskatt, Swedish VAT number)

- VAT (United Kingdom (and Isle of Man) VAT registration number)

- EGN (ЕГН, Единен граждански номер, Bulgarian personal identity codes)

- PNF (ЛНЧ, Личен номер на чужденец, Bulgarian number of a foreigner)

- VAT (Идентификационен номер по ДДС, Bulgarian VAT number)

- VAT (European Union VAT number)

- OIB (Osobni identifikacijski broj, Croatian identification number)

- PPS No (Personal Public Service Number, Irish personal number)

- CPR (personnummer, the Danish citizen number)

* Additional tests for robustness and use introspection to test all modules

* Some code refactoring with the introduction of an internal utility module

* Improvements to the docstring documentation

* Generate API documentation using Sphinx

changes from 0.5 to 0.6

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* Fix a problem with handling an ISBN13 with a valid check digit but with an

unknown bookland prefix

* Add an IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) module

* Implement a conversion function from ISBN13 to ISBN10

* Implement an ismn.ismn_type() function

* Implement an imei.split() function that splits the number into a TAC, serial

number and checksum or software version

* Source code layout changes to better follow PEP8

changes from 0.4 to 0.5

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* Add modules for the following number formats:

- EAN (International Article Number)

* Refactoring to use the EAN check digit code for ISBN and ISMN checks

* Implement a conversion function from ISSN to EAN

* Support Python3 with the same codebase

* Python 2.5 compatibility improvement

changes from 0.3 to 0.4

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* Add modules for the following number formats:

- CPF (Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas, the Brazilian national identification

number)

- IBAN (International Bank Account Number)

- ISIL (International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related

Organizations)

- SSN (U.S. Social Security Number)

* Implement an internal module to store and handle hierarchically organised

data structures efficiently

* Regional-specific numbers are now in ISO 3166 packages (the BSN module

is now in stdnum.nl.bsn)

* ISBN module functions now have a convert flag to convert to ISBN-13 on

the fly

changes from 0.2 to 0.3

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* Add modules for the following number formats:

- ISMN (International Standard Music Number)

- ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number)

- IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)

- MEID (Mobile Equipment Identifier)

- GRid (Global Release Identifier)

* Add modules for handling the following check digit algorithms:

- the Verhoeff algorithm

- the Luhn and Luhn mod N algorithms

- some algorithms described in ISO/IEC 7064: Mod 11, 2, Mod 37, 2,

Mod 97, 10, Mod 11, 10 and Mod 37, 36

* Added more unit tests

changes from 0.1 to 0.2

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* Rename validate() function to is_valid() for all modules

* Handle wrong types passed to is_valid() more gracefully

* Add more tests and fix some minor bugs