Bug#586130: RFP: pycountry -- provides the ISO databases for the standards

["W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Package name    : python-pycountry
Version         : 0.12.1
Upstream Author : Christian Theune <ct at gocept com>
URL or Web page : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycountry/
License         : LGPL 2.1
Description     : provides the ISO databases for the standards

From the web page:

ISO country, subdivision, language, currency and script definitions  
and their translations

pycountry provides the ISO databases for the standards:

639
    Languages
3166
    Countries
3166-2
    Subdivisions of countries
4217
    Currencies
15924
    Scripts

The package includes a copy from Debian's pkg-isocodes and makes the  
data accessible through a Python API.

Translation files for the various strings are included as well.