Should ISO_3166_1_ALPHA2_COUNTRY_CODES
be in choices
format instead of as a flat tuple? #499
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Hi and thanks for the great package. We are making a field to hold ISO 3316 country codes, and we were tempted to use ISO_3166_1_ALPHA2_COUNTRY_CODES
because it looked super convenient. Unfortunately, though, it's just a list of the country codes and so it can't be used as a choices
field.
I figured there'd be a workaround so that we could do:
country = models.CharField(length=2, choices=ISO_3166_1_ALPHA2_COUNTRY_CODES)
But I couldn't think of anything I really liked except for:
ISO_3166_CHOICES = {i: i for i in ISO_3166_1_ALPHA2_COUNTRY_CODES}
That didn't really thrill me, so I looked in Github, and was amused to see that literally nobody has used this variable in a public repo. Go figure.
I wonder if it'd be more useful to have it as a dictionary. That'd allow it to be used in choices
. This would work nicely:
{
"US": "United States",
"GB": "United Kingdom of Great Britain",
"UA": "Ukraine",
...
}
Any interest in this?
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