django countries currency code

Question

I am using django_countries to show the countries list. Now, I have a requirement where I need to show currency according to country. Norway - NOK, Europe & Afrika (besides UK) - EUR, UK - GBP, AMERICAS & ASIA - USDs.

Could this be achieved through django_countries project? or are there any other packages in python or django which I could use for this?

Any other solution is welcomed as well.

--------------------------- UPDATE ------------- The main emphasis is on this after getting lot of solutions: Norway - NOK, Europe & Afrika (besides UK) - EUR, UK - GBP, AMERICAS & ASIA - USDs.

---------------------------- SOLUTION --------------------------------

My solution was quite simple, when I realized that I couldnt get any ISO format or a package to get what I want, I thought to write my own script. It is just a conditional based logic:

from incf.countryutils import transformations
def getCurrencyCode(self, countryCode):
        continent = transformations.cca_to_ctn(countryCode)
        # print continent
        if str(countryCode) == 'NO':
            return 'NOK'

        if str(countryCode) == 'GB':
            return 'GBP'

        if (continent == 'Europe') or (continent == 'Africa'):
            return 'EUR'

        return 'USD'

Dont know whether this is efficient way or not, would like to hear some suggestions.

Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

There are several modules out there:

• pycountry:

  import pycountry
  
  country = pycountry.countries.get(name='Norway')
  currency = pycountry.currencies.get(numeric=country.numeric)
  
  print currency.alpha_3
  print currency.name
  

  prints:

  NOK 
  Norwegian Krone
  

• py-moneyed

  import moneyed
  
  country_name = 'France'
  
  for currency, data in moneyed.CURRENCIES.iteritems():
      if country_name.upper() in data.countries:
          print currency
          break
  

  prints EUR

• python-money

  import money
  
  country_name = 'France'
  
  for currency, data in money.CURRENCY.iteritems():
      if country_name.upper() in data.countries:
          print currency
          break
  

  prints EUR

pycountry is regularly updated, py-moneyed looks great and has more features than python-money, plus python-money is not maintained now.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

django-countries just hands you a field to couple to your model (and a static bundle with flag icons). The field can hold a 2 character ISO from the list in countries.py which is convenient if this list is up-to-date (haven't checked) because it saves a lot of typing.

If you wish to create a model with verbose data that's easily achieved, e.g.

class Country(models.Model):
    iso = CountryField()
    currency = # m2m, fk, char or int field with pre-defined 
               # choices or whatever suits you

>> obj = Country.objects.create(iso='NZ', currency='NZD')
>> obj.iso.code
u'NZ'
>> obj.get_iso_display()
u'New Zealand'
>> obj.currency
u'NZD'

An example script of preloading data, which could later be exported to create a fixture which is a nicer way of managing sample data.

from django_countries.countries import COUNTRIES

for key in dict(COUNTRIES).keys():
    Country.objects.create(iso=key)

Answer 3

I have just released country-currencies, a module that gives you a mapping of country codes to currencies.

>>> from country_currencies import get_by_country
>>> get_by_country('US')
('USD',)
>>> get_by_country('ZW')
('USD', 'ZAR', 'BWP', 'GBP', 'EUR')