country-bounding-boxes 0.1

Installation

$ pip install country-bounding-boxes

Usage

>>> from country_bounding_boxes import (
      get_countries_containing_point,
      get_country_by_iso_code
    )

Get a country by its 2- or 3-letter ISO code:

>>> get_country_by_iso_code('ZW').name
"Zimbabwe"
>>> get_country_by_iso_code('ZWE').name
"Zimbabwe"
>>> get_country_by_iso_code('TM').name
"Turkmenistan"

Inspect bounding box as (lon1, lat1, lon2, lat2) tuples:

>>> get_country_by_iso_code('TM').bbox
(52.5024597512, 35.2706639674, 66.5461503437, 42.7515510117)

Get a set of countries by their intersection with a point:

>>> cs = get_countries_containing_point(lon=-79.888252,
                                        lat=32.819747)
>>> [c.name for c in cs]
['United States']

Development

If you want to do development on the library, follow these steps:

• Create a virtualenv

• bin/pip install -r requirements/tests.txt

• bin/nosetests -s mobile_codes