simple gender detection

README.md

@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ To get started with the sprint:
 
 Other tasks:
 
-1.  Gender identification - Improve the gender identification in pycon_speakers/pipelines.py
+1.  Improve the gender identification in pycon_speakers/pipelines.py
+2.  Chart results
 
 
 Running the Scrapy Code

pycon_speakers/pipelines.py

@@ -1,19 +1,16 @@
-# Define your item pipelines here
-#
-# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting
-# See: http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html
+import sexmachine.detector as gender
 
 
 class GenderPipeline(object):
 
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.detector = gender.Detector()
+
     def process_item(self, item, spider):
-        item['gender'] = self._infer_gender(item)
+        firstname = item['name'].split()[0]
+        item['gender'] = self.detector.get_gender(firstname)
         return item
 
-    def _infer_gender(self, item):
-        return 'unknown'
-
-
 class DefaultsPipeline(object):
     """
     Set default values.

requirements.txt

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 Scrapy
+SexMachine