Generating Cutter numbers

[skryskalla at gmail.com]

Gerard Flanagan wrote:
> All
>
> would anyone happen to have code to generate Cutter Numbers:
>
>   eg. http://www1.kfupm.edu.sa/library/cod-web/Cutter-numbers.htm
>
> or is anyone looking for something to do?-)  (I'm under pressure!)
>
> def cutter(lname, fname, book_title):
>

What do you use lname and fname (author first name and last name?) for?
 The page you linked to does not have any information (that I could
see) about first names or last names.

I wrote a script to see if I could capture what the table is doing on
the page you linked to.  It gets the Cutter number right about 50% of
the time, otherwise its off by a few digits.

I am stumped about what to do when the first letter is Q not followed
by U.  It says to use numbers 2-29 for the second letters a-t, but that
is obviously not right (for one thing t would be 21, not 29).

Since you seem a little bit more experienced in library science could
you explain what is going on? :)

you can find the script here:
http://lost-theory.org/python/cutter.txt

 Title            mine 	real 	match?
---------------------------------------
IBM              I26 	I26 	True
Idaho            I33 	I33 	True
Ilardo           I43 	I4 	False
Import           I47 	I48 	False
Inman            I56 	I56 	True
Ipswich          I67 	I67 	True
Ito              I86 	I87 	False
Ivy              I99 	I94 	False
Sadron           S23 	S23 	True
Scanlon          S33 	S29 	False
Schreiber        S37 	S37 	True
Shillingburg     S55 	S53 	False
Singer           S56 	S57 	False
Stinson          S75 	S75 	True
Suryani          S87 	S87 	True
Symposium        S96 	S96 	True
Qadduri          Q23 	Q23 	True
Qiao             Q103 	Q27 	False
Quade            Q33 	Q33 	True
Queiroz          Q45 	Q45 	True
Quinn            Q56 	Q56 	True
Quorum           Q67 	Q67 	True
Qutub            Q88 	Q88 	True
Qvortrup         Q236 	Q97 	False
Campbell         C46 	C36 	False
Ceccaldi         C53 	C43 	False
Chertok          C64 	C48 	False
Clark            C73 	C58 	False
Cobblestone      C43 	C63 	False
Cryer            C79 	C79 	True
Cuellar          C74 	C84 	False
Cymbal           C36 	C96 	False


Steve