new_contents: """Base class for a herd - a group of records"""
  
  
  class Herd():
      """You need:
      - validate names (check for commas, weird chars, convert to unicode/ascii?)
          * remove Mrs, PhD, Ms., etc.
          * check for commas, weird chars
          * convert to unicode/ascii?
      - validate that you only have certain field names in the incoming dict
      - parse names into first, last, prefix, suffix
      """
      pass
  
subject: Add skeleton file for Herd class