Python library: pycountry

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20 Jan 2023

Library resources
PyPI https://pypi.org/project/pycountry/
Github https://github.com/flyingcircusio/pycountry
Documentation ---

Getting Started

pip install pycountry

Usage

import pycountry

def get_country_code(location):
    try:
        country = pycountry.countries.search_fuzzy(location)
        return country[0].alpha_2
    except:
        return None

Returns a LookupError: cambridge, massachusetts when doing a fuzzy search with "Cambridge, Massachusetts" as input.

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