From af3fff85593c48b2992380dc121c124e14983aa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hazel Noack <hazel@webcontact.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:40:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: lookup error for fuzzy search

---
 pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py |  2 +-
 pycountry_wrapper/country.py  | 11 ++++++++---
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py b/pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py
index 4b537e4..de19c1a 100644
--- a/pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py
+++ b/pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ from . import Country, EmptyCountry
 def cli():
     print(f"Running {__name__} version {__version__} from __main__.py")
 
-    print(EmptyCountry(country="doesn't exist").name)
\ No newline at end of file
+    print(EmptyCountry(country="zwx").name)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pycountry_wrapper/country.py b/pycountry_wrapper/country.py
index 6762500..ec40e09 100644
--- a/pycountry_wrapper/country.py
+++ b/pycountry_wrapper/country.py
@@ -58,9 +58,14 @@ class Country:
         
         # fuzzy search if enabled
         if config.allow_fuzzy_search:
-            found_countries = pycountry.countries.search_fuzzy(country)
-            if len(found_countries):
-                return found_countries[0]
+            # fuzzy search raises lookup error if nothing was found
+            try:
+                found_countries = pycountry.countries.search_fuzzy(country)
+                if len(found_countries):
+                    return found_countries[0]
+            except LookupError:
+                pass
+            
 
     @classmethod
     def search(cls, country: Optional[str]) -> Optional[Country]: