countries.search_fuzzy('Cape Verde') return LookupError

[phamngocquy]

Actually, both Cabo Verde and Cape Verde are used. So, need to add Cape Verde on data

[aclarry]

Related (I think the same underlying problem), searching "South Korea", "North Korea", and "Ivory Coast" yields the same error.

[aclarry]

This could be partially fixed by splitting up the search string when looking up matches. "Cape Verde" could look through the database matching "cape" and "verde" which would yield a match on "verde". "South Korea" and "North Korea" would yield results for both PRK and KOR, which is at least a step in the right direction. That wouldn't fix "Ivory Coast", though - I think to be able to figure that out, there would need to be a second source of data on top of the ISO data, which is maybe outside the scope of the package.

[phamngocquy]

I think the Author should add the keyword to the database of lib.

[evil-shrike]

+1 encountered the same error on crashing on "Cape Verde" which in the official standard as an alias for Cabo Verde - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes#CABO

What is actually surprising is that search_fuzzy throws an exception while get method doesn't:

print(pycountry.countries.get(name="cape verde")) None print(pycountry.countries.search_fuzzy("cape verde")) LookupError: cape verde

from semantic of 'get' and 'search' I expect the opposite behavior: 'get' throws and 'search' returns None. It's especially strange as search_fuzzy searches for countries with a fuzzy logic so why doesn't it return an empty array if couldn't find anything?

[bjackd]

I'm getting the same behavior with "Northern Ireland". It seems that the "space" in the search string is the problem. Some output from my code: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/brian/source/PyEyeBoard/src/GUI/QtToolLib.py", line 976, in CreateLogin fuzzy = pycountry.countries.search_fuzzy(country) File "/home/brian/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pycountry/init.py", line 113, in search_fuzzy raise LookupError(query) LookupError: n ire Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/brian/source/PyEyeBoard/src/GUI/QtToolLib.py", line 976, in CreateLogin fuzzy = pycountry.countries.search_fuzzy(country) File "/home/brian/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pycountry/init.py", line 113, in search_fuzzy raise LookupError(query) LookupError: north ireland Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/brian/source/PyEyeBoard/src/GUI/QtToolLib.py", line 976, in CreateLogin fuzzy = pycountry.countries.search_fuzzy(country) File "/home/brian/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pycountry/init.py", line 113, in search_fuzzy raise LookupError(query) LookupError: northern ireland SubdivisionHierarchy(code='FJ-N', country_code='FJ', name='Northern', parent_code=None, type='Division') SubdivisionHierarchy(code='GH-NP', country_code='GH', name='Northern', parent_code=None, type='Region') SubdivisionHierarchy(code='PG-NPP', country_code='PG', name='Northern', parent_code=None, type='Province') ...