The country converter (coco) - a Python package for converting country names between different classifications schemes.

0.5.0 - 20170802

This is the version after the review for publication in The Journal of Open Source Software.

Changed

* Renamed XXin methods to XXas. For example coco.EU27in('ISO3') becomese coco.EU27as('ISO3')
* Some updates in README.rst (related software, badges, motivation)
* Added CONTRIBUTING.rst

Extended functionality for missing data and own data

Extended functionality:

• Account for cases where countries or regions are specified with 'exclude ...'

• Possibility to add custom countryfile for own mappings

• Not found value can be specified also in the CLI version

• Automatically detect input format (ISO2, ISO3, ISOnumeric)

Some bugfixes:

• Change ISO3 for Romania from ROM to ROU (bugfix)

• Change ISO3 for Congo from COD to COG (bugfix)