[Feature request] get INDI ID number

[ljm0]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Hi, I want to get the ID number of INDI (like @I5465477880020118059@) in order to give a kind of unique tag for each name.

0 @I5465477880020118059@ INDI
1 NAME Chee Lin /TAN 陳/
2 GIVN Chee Lin
1 SEX M
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Misc Event
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1944

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to know if there is some way I get the ID number of INDI (like @I5465477880020118059@)

I have tried this, but only got None for INDI_ID_number

from gedcom.element.individual import IndividualElement
from gedcom.parser import Parser
import gedcom

def generate_names_json(file_name):
    file_path = file_name
    gedcom_parser = Parser()
    gedcom_parser.parse_file(file_path)
    root_child_elements = gedcom_parser.get_root_child_elements()

    count_individual = 0

    for element in root_child_elements:
        curr_element_dict = {}
        if isinstance(element, IndividualElement):
            if element.get_tag() == gedcom.tags.GEDCOM_TAG_INDIVIDUAL:
                curr_element_dict['INDI_ID_number'] = element.get_value()
            curr_element_dict['name'] = element.get_name()
    print(curr_element_dict)

Any ideas relevant will be very helpful for me. Thanks very much for your help!

[joeyaurel]

Hey @ljm0. Good idea! Will have a look on that after finishing the PR #53. You are also open to create a PR for this :)

[gregersn]

Is this not the same as using get_pointer() on the element?