[Tutor] PyCountry currency formatting woes

[Sithembewena Lloyd Dube]

Thanks for this response, this is exactly what I needed to know.


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompkins at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube <zebra05 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Thanks, i was actually getting the error information to update the post.
>> Apoligies to waste your time posting here - I could not find an appropriate
>> PyCountry discussion list and my next best bet seemed to be a Python users'
>> list.
>>
>>
> You also posted on StackOverflow; I just answered you there.  In short:
> the currency numeric is not guaranteed to be the same as the country
> numeric (in the case of the Euro, how could it possibly be?)  The numeric
> for DE is 276; the numeric for the Euro is 978.  Obviously they don't match.
>
> PyCountry is a wrapper around some tables provided by Debian; those tables
> don't include a country/currency mapping.  You can find those mapping
> tables at
>      http://www.currency-iso.org/en/home/tables/table-a1.html
> and roll your own wrapper; I'm sure it's been done a thousand times
> before, but I'm not aware of a Python package that does this.
>



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Regards,
Sithu Lloyd Dube
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