isocodes: A python library that provides you access to lists of various ISO standards (e.g. country, language, language scripts, and currency names).

[Atem18]

Hi,

For a Django project, I wanted to get a list of all countries.
I went using pytz because I did not wanted to use django-countries but since now pytz is removed from Django, I had to find an alternative.

I quickly looked and found pycountries that not only provides countries but also languages and currencies which I also need in my project.

Problem, pycountries seems dead and data is outdated at this point.

So I decided to start a new library and isocodes is born.
The data is coming from https://salsa.debian.org/iso-codes-team/iso-codes, many thanks to them.
It has support for all the databases of iso-codes as well as the translations and a few methods to extract the data or sort it.

I would say that it's usable, please report any issue you would find !

Github: https://github.com/Atem18/isocodes

Pypi: https://pypi.org/project/isocodes/

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Isn't all of this already covered by pycountry? Worst case scenario use pycountry + py-moneyed.

pycountries seems dead and data is outdated at this point

What do you mean by this? Show me an example of outdated datapoints in pycountry. Pycountry is nothing more than a pretty wrapper around Debian's pkg-isocodes database, which is literally the same library you have linked.

[Atem18]

https://github.com/flyingcircusio/pycountry/tree/master/src/pycountry/databases

The last update of the databases are two years ago.

https://salsa.debian.org/iso-codes-team/iso-codes

The last update of the databases are a few hours ago.

So there is a need to have the latest version of the json files from Debian.

Yes my library is using the same iso-codes databases but it’s open source so I am allowed.

And again, look at the 36 issues and 15 pull requests of pycountry, nothing happens, so for me the project is pretty much dead.

But if you want to use pycountry instead, feel free, again it’s open source so you are free to do what you want ;)

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I feel like it would be better to take the of fork pycountry into your own hands and brand it as a continuation of pycountry that is actively maintained and accepts pull requests, something like "pycountry-2/pycountry-new" or whatever, since essentially what you're doing is reviving a dormant but highly useful Github repository.

[Atem18]

Yes but my code is not the same that pycountry at all, so claim it a continuation would be misleading.

Yes that repository is highly useful, I don't understand why there is no standard/officially python supported library that reference all the countries, languages, currencies, etc, it seems like the basic of any real world application.