Open source package to convert minor planet designations (MPC) from unpacked to packed?

Astropy
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I want to convert unpacked designations to their packed equivalents, as described here.

Is there an open source package that performs this conversion?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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This is available via sbpy:

>>> from sbpy.data import Names
>>> Names.to_packed('1995 AA1')
'J95A01A'