sg101: bio/flags.py annotate

For issue 16, add country flag icons to user profiles & forum posts.

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bgneal@609	1 """
bgneal@609	2 This module contains country flag data & functions.
bgneal@609	3
bgneal@609	4 """
bgneal@609	5 from __future__ import with_statement
bgneal@609	6 import os.path
bgneal@609	7 import locale
bgneal@609	8 import logging
bgneal@609	9
bgneal@609	10 import django.utils.simplejson as json
bgneal@609	11
bgneal@609	12
bgneal@609	13 # Read flag data from external JSON file:
bgneal@609	14
bgneal@609	15 FLAG_DATA = {}
bgneal@609	16
bgneal@609	17 datafile = os.path.join(os.path.split(__file__)[0], 'flag_data.json')
bgneal@609	18
bgneal@609	19 try:
bgneal@609	20 with open(datafile, 'r') as fp:
bgneal@609	21 FLAG_DATA = json.load(fp, encoding='utf-8')
bgneal@609	22 except IOError:
bgneal@609	23 FLAG_DATA = {}
bgneal@609	24 logging.error("Could not load flag_data.json")
bgneal@609	25
bgneal@609	26 # Build a choices list for use with Django models, etc.
bgneal@609	27 # The locale is set in order to sort the place names correctly:
bgneal@609	28
bgneal@609	29 locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
bgneal@609	30
bgneal@609	31 FLAG_CHOICES = sorted(FLAG_DATA.items(),
bgneal@609	32 cmp=lambda lhs, rhs: locale.strcoll(lhs[1], rhs[1]))

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