Mass content adding/Software/Extracting data from NGA country file

Note that program is under GNU GPL, not under GNU FDL. If you contribute to this program, please, add your name inside of copyright notice.

This program operates with files which can be found at http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html. Download xx.zip file, unzip it and use this program to dump Python dictionary in the file.

#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Copyright (C) 2006 Milos Rancic
# 
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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# input file: xx.txt
# ouput file: xx.pickle

import sys
import pickle

def make_list(r):
	l = {}
	first = r[0].split("\t")
	for n in range(1,len(r)):
		l[n] = {}
		row = r[n].split("\t")
		for m in range(0,len(row)):
			l[n][first[m]] = row[m]
	return l

def dump_list(l,cc):
	pickle_fn = cc + '.pickle'
	fn = file(pickle_fn,'w')
	pickle.dump(l,fn)

def main_program(file_name):
	countrycode = file_name.split('.')[0]
	rows = file(file_name).read().split("\r\n")
	list = make_list(rows)
	dump_list(list,countrycode)

try:
	# if we are calling this script from a command line
	file_name = sys.argv[1]
	main_program(file_name)

except IndexError:
	# if we are calling this script as a module
	pass