1 import urllib2
2 from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
3
4 def FetchCountryCodes():
5 """Country Code List: ISO 3166-1993 (E)
6
7 This international standard provides a two-letter alphabetic code for
8 representing the names of countries, dependencies, and other areas of
9 special geopolitical interest. The source of this code set is the Codes
10 for the Representation of Names of Countries (ISO 3166-1993 (E)).
11 """
12
13 page = urllib2.urlopen("http://xml.coverpages.org/country3166.html")
14 soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
15 page.close()
16
17 countries = []
18 for listrow in soup.html.body.table.findAll('tr')[1:]:
19 col1, col2 = listrow.findAll('td')
20 code = col1.renderContents()
21 name = col2.renderContents()
22 countries.append( (code, name) )
23 return countries
24
25 codes = FetchCountryCodes()
26 print codes
Note(s):
- This example uses standard Python except for
the BeautifulSoup package which must be installed separately.