Currently the parser recognizes nicknames that are surrounded in parenthesis or double quotes. This is controlled by a regex, defined here:

python-nameparser/nameparser/config/regexes.py

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("nickname", re.compile(r'\s*?[\("](.+?)[\)"]', re.U)),

And the parse_nicknames() method runs it:

python-nameparser/nameparser/parser.py

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               def parse_nicknames(self): 
        
                   """ 
        
                   The content of parenthesis or double quotes in the name will 
        
                   be treated as nicknames. This happens before any other 
        
                   processing of the name. 
        
                   """ 
        
                   # https://code.google.com/p/python-nameparser/issues/detail?id=33 
        
                   re_nickname = self.C.regexes.nickname 
        
                   if re_nickname.search(self._full_name): 
        
                       self.nickname_list = re_nickname.findall(self._full_name) 
        
                       self._full_name = re_nickname.sub('', self._full_name)

You could update the regex to look for single quotes by replace that regex, something like:

CONSTANTS.regexes.nickname = re.compile(r'\s*?[\(\'"](.+?)[\'"]', re.U))

I think the only reason I didn't include single quotes is because I wasn't sure how to write the regex so that the second match only matches the same character that it found in the first match. Also there's some weird edge case names like "ab'ad al am'an" that I wasn't sure how to weed out. My regex chops are not very strong. If you come up with a better regex, I'd be happy to put it in the library.

	def parse_nicknames(self):
	"""
	The content of parenthesis or double quotes in the name will
	be treated as nicknames. This happens before any other
	processing of the name.
	"""
	# https://code.google.com/p/python-nameparser/issues/detail?id=33
	re_nickname = self.C.regexes.nickname
	if re_nickname.search(self._full_name):
	self.nickname_list = re_nickname.findall(self._full_name)
	self._full_name = re_nickname.sub('', self._full_name)

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