Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: countrynames
Version: 1.15.3
Summary: A library to map country names to ISO codes.
Home-page: http://github.com/occrp/countrynames
Author: Friedrich Lindenberg
Author-email: friedrich@pudo.org
License: MIT
Keywords: names countries iso country
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
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# countrynames

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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

```python
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`` - Kosovo
* ``EU`` 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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