How to convert country names to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 values, using python

Question

I have a list of countries like:

countries=['American Samoa', 'Canada', 'France'...] 

I want to convert them like this:

countries=['AS', 'CA', 'FR'...] 

Is there any module or any way to convert them?

Answer 1

There is a module called pycountry.

Here's an example code:

import pycountry  input_countries = ['American Samoa', 'Canada', 'France']  countries = {} for country in pycountry.countries:     countries[country.name] = country.alpha_2  codes = [countries.get(country, 'Unknown code') for country in input_countries]  print(codes)  # prints ['AS', 'CA', 'FR'] 

Answer 2

You can use this csv file : country code list into a CSV.

import csv  dic = {} with open("wikipedia-iso-country-codes.csv") as f:     file= csv.DictReader(f, delimiter=',')     for line in file:         dic[line['English short name lower case']] = line['Alpha-2 code']          countries = ['American Samoa', 'Canada', 'France']  for country in countries:     print(dic[country]) 

Will print:

AS CA FR 

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