pycountry-wrapper (0.0.0)
Published 2024-11-19 13:53:50 +00:00 by Hazel
Installation
pip install --index-url About this package
This is a wrapper for pycountry, to make said library more usable.
Pycountry-Wrapper
This is a wrapper for pycountry, to make said library more usable.
Installation
You can install the library by using pip:
pip install pycountry-wrapper
Usage
from pycountry_wrapper import Country, CountryDoesNotExist
germany = Country.from_alpha_2("DE")
print(germany)
print(germany.name)
try:
does_not_exist = Country.from_alpha_2("EN")
except CountryDoesNotExist:
# if the country wasn't found, this exception is thrown
pass
Creating country class
You can call create an instance of pycountry_wrapper.Country in three ways.
Using ISO 3166-1 with either 2 or 3 letters:
from pycountry_wrapper import Country
Country.from_alpha_2("DE")
Country.from_alpha_2("DEU")
Or you can do a fuzzy search in a similar way:
from pycountry_wrapper import Country
Country.from_fuzzy("Deutschland")
Or you can pass a pycountry object in the constructor:
import pycountry
from pycountry_wrapper import Country
Country(pycountry.countries.get(alpha_2="DE"))
Accessing information
There are only a handful (readonly) attributes.
from pycountry_wrapper import Country
country = Country.from_alpha_2("DE")
country.name
country.alpha_2
country.alpha_3
country.official_name
Requirements
Requires Python: >=3.8