Parser for Hungarian county list of Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a list of Hungarian cities, and this library parses it into city -> county tuples or dictionary.

generator module

The following functions of the generator module can be used to parse the input.

• generate_items is a generator and yields (city, county) tuples
• generate_dict returns a city -> county dictionary
• generate_pickled saves such a dictionary into a Pickle file

The generator module can also be called from the command line with a file argument, as it can be seen in the following example.

$ python generator.py output.pickle

lookup module

The lookup modules has a Lookup class, which can be instantiated with a string parameter having the name of a Pickle file generated by generator. The get method can be used to get the county associated with a certain city. The lookup module can also be called from the command line with two arguments as it can be seen in the following example.

$ python lookup.py test.pickle Budapest
Budapest

License

The whole project is available under MIT license.

Dependencies

• Python 2.x (tested on 2.7.3)
• lxml (Debian/Ubuntu package: python-lxml)