This is an application for Django projects providing fixtures and models for a "complete" list of world countries based on the ISO 3166 standard. This fork drops the original project's goal of including US states as well as the country information gathered from the UN list (the three-letter abbreviations and numeric codes). The UN list may have a slightly different list of countries and some country names are definitely altered, but they are similar enough to make the considerable merging task not worth it.

To install, copy the countries folder into your django project's directory. Add countries to the list of installed apps and run syncdb.

If flag icons are desired, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code flag package can be downloaded at http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/flags/ Add a flags directory to your media root and copy the images there. It is recommended to use the png versions because the code in this project defaults to looking for png. An alternative flag resource is http://www.ip2location.com/flagsoftheworld.aspx

As is, the initial_data fixture loads all countries with sort priorities. To make sure you have the most up-to-date list it is probably best to run this script to replace initial_data.

Ex.:

./country_grabber.py countries/fixtures/initial_data.json

If you need to change the display priority of any countries, for example if you would like the United States to list first in drop boxes by default, add entries to the priority dictionary in country_grabber.py. These numbers are sorted in descending order, with the country naname ascending used for those of the same priority.

Requires Django 1.2+. country_grabber tested on Python 2.6.5

COUNTRIES_FLAG_PATH

Alters the location or changes the image file type. The location is relative to your site media root (MEDIA_URL).

Example:

COUNTRIES_FLAG_PATH = `countries/flags/%s.gif`

Default: flags/%s.png

The data that will be put into the database on syncdb/flush is found in fixtures/initial_data.json. The json may be edited by hand or overwritten using the included `country_grabber.py script. Run without arguments it will dump the json to the console, it can also be given one argument, a filename, to declare the file to which the json should be written (you probably want to pass countries/fixtures/initial_data.json). The script automatically parses the ISO page http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm