added continent metadata to countries in flags fixture

attic/concurrency/flags/add_continent.py

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+# Source for continent listings:
+# United Nations Statistics Division
+# http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/ctryreg/default.asp?Lg=1
+
+CONTINENTS = dict(AF='Africa',
+                  AS='Asia',
+                  EU='Europe',
+                  NA='North America',
+                  SA='South America',
+                  OC='Oceania')
+
+COUNTRY_CONTINENT = {}
+
+for cont_code, cont_name in CONTINENTS.items():
+    cont_suffix = cont_name.lower().replace(' ', '_')
+    with open('continent-' + cont_suffix + '.txt') as fp:
+        for country in fp:
+            COUNTRY_CONTINENT[country.strip()] = cont_code
+
+with open('country-codes.tab') as fp:
+    for lin in fp:
+        if lin.startswith('#'):
+            continue
+        lin = lin.strip()
+        cc, gec, name = lin.split('\t')
+        cont = COUNTRY_CONTINENT.get(name, '??')
+        print(cc, gec, cont, name, sep='\t')