Bug#1030572: ITP: python-countrynames -- Map country names to ISO codes

[Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>]

On 05/02/2023 20:46, Edward Betts wrote:
> * Package name    : python-countrynames
>    Version         : 1.14.1
>    Upstream Author : Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich@pudo.org>
> * URL             : https://github.com/occrp/countrynames
> * License         : MIT
>    Programming Lang: Python
>    Description     : Map country names to ISO codes
>
>    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.
>   
> I plan to maintain this package as part of the Python team.

I wonder if this upstream and pycountry would be interested in 
cooperating. Keeping multiple databases like these up to date is awkward.

https://github.com/flyingcircusio/pycountry

(pycountry uses Debian's iso-codes package for its data)

regards
Stuart

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