Flags, detail

A quick note about the flags. There are enough now that it's hard to be sure I got them all. So.. I went to the Flag Counter site (this page, and the next). Rather than do anything fancy, I just copied the text to a file and then processed it with Python. My database of flag images is from Wikipedia, and I shortened the file names by the country code. Since I can't remember a number of them, I wrote a Python script to harvest the Flag Counter entries and match them with the country codes (from here).

I checked the directory with the flag images by eye, which is almost certainly a mistake.

Here is the list of countries from which visitors to this site have come, in alphabetical order. The script is at the end. It shows a number of typical issues you run into with this kind of processing.

AE United Arab Emirates AL Albania AN Netherlands Antilles AR Argentina AT Austria AU Australia BB Barbados BE Belgium BG Bulgaria BH Bahrain BR Brazil BY Belarus CA Canada CH Switzerland CL Chile CN China CO Colombia CR Costa Rica CS Serbia CV Cape Verde CY Cyprus CZ Czech Republic DE Germany DK Denmark DZ Algeria EC Ecuador EE Estonia EG Egypt ES Spain FI Finland FR France GH Ghana GR Greece HK Hong Kong HR Croatia HU Hungary ID Indonesia IE Ireland IL Israel IN India IS Iceland IT Italy JM Jamaica JP Japan KR South Korea LT Lithuania LU Luxembourg MA Morocco MD Moldova MT Malta MU Mauritius MX Mexico MY Malaysia NL Netherlands NO Norway NZ New Zealand PA Panama PE Peru PH Philippines PK Pakistan PL Poland PR Puerto Rico PT Portugal QA Qatar RO Romania RU Russia SA Saudi Arabia SE Sweden SG Singapore SI Slovenia SK Slovakia SV El Salvador TH Thailand TN Tunisia TR Turkey TT Trinidad and Tobago TW Taiwan UA Ukraine UK United Kingdom US United States UY Uruguay VE Venezuela VN Vietnam ZA South Africa

from utils import load_data specials = { 'South_Korea':'Korea_(South)', 'Russia':'Russian_Federation', 'New_Zealand':'New_Zealand_(Aotearoa)', 'Serbia':'Serbia_and_Montenegro', 'Croatia':'Croatia_(Hrvatska)', 'Vietnam':'Viet_Nam' } data = load_data('country-codes.txt') D = dict() for line in data.strip().split('\n'): L = line.strip().split() D['_'.join(L[1:])] = L[0] cL = list() data = load_data('scraped.txt') for line in data.strip().split('\n'): L = line.strip().split() i = len(L) - 4 country = '_'.join(L[1:i]) cL.append(country) if country in specials: k = specials[country] D[country] = D[k] def f(k): return D[k] for country in sorted(cL, key=f): print D[country],'\t', country.replace('_',' ')