countrynames
This library helps with the mapping of country names to their respective
two or three letter codes. The idea is
to incorporate common names for countries, and even some limited misspellings,
as they occur in source data.
There is also support for fuzzy matching, which uses a heuristic based on levenshtein distance.
Usage
import countrynames
assert 'DE' == countrynames.to_code('Germany')
assert 'DE' == countrynames.to_code('Bundesrepublik Deutschland')
assert 'DE' == countrynames.to_code('Bundesrepublik Deutschlan', fuzzy=True)
assert 'DE' == countrynames.to_code('DE')
assert 'DEU' == countrynames.to_code_3('Germany')
Non-standard country codes
XK
or XKX
- KosovoEU
or EUU
- European Union
For some dissolved countries (e.g. SUHH
for Soviet Union) and sub-regions
(e.g. GB-SCT
for Scotland) special codes are defined and returned from both
to_code
and to_code_3
.
License
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016 Friedrich Lindenberg
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