How to convert country names to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 values, using python

Question

I have a list of countries like:

countries=[\'American Samoa\', \'Canada\', \'France\'...]

I want to convert them like this:

Answer 1

You can use this csv file : country code list into a CSV.

import csv

dic = {}
with open("wikipedia-iso-country-codes.csv") as f:
    file= csv.DictReader(f, delimiter=',')
    for line in file:
        dic[line['English short name lower case']] = line['Alpha-2 code']        

countries = ['American Samoa', 'Canada', 'France']

for country in countries:
    print(dic[country])

Will print:

AS
CA
FR

Few more alternatives.