Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Edward Betts Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist,linux.debian.devel,linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Bug#1030572: ITP: python-countrynames -- Map country names to ISO codes Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2023 10:50:01 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-bugs-dist-request@lists.debian.org Sun Feb 5 09:48:10 2023 Old-Return-Path: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -3.75 Reply-To: Edward Betts , 1030572@bugs.debian.org Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-python@lists.debian.org, wnpp@debian.org X-Debian-Pr-Message: report 1030572 X-Debian-Pr-Package: wnpp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Debian-Message: from BTS X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1758238 List-ID: List-URL: Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 21 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 09:46:04 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <20230205094603.ernkv4sr4osguljx@4angle.com> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.bugs.dist:1136409 linux.debian.devel:107097 linux.debian.maint.python:14889 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Edward Betts X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-python@lists.debian.org * Package name : python-countrynames Version : 1.14.1 Upstream Author : Friedrich Lindenberg * 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.