flag
Flag emoji for Python.
Converts flag emoji to ASCII and other way round.
This is based on http://schinckel.net/2015/10/29/unicode-flags-in-python/ by schinckel
How it works
All the flag emoji are actually composed of two unicode letters. These are the 26 regional indicator symbols.
Alone they look like this:
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
If you pair them up according to ISO 3166 some browsers and phones will display a flag.
For example TW is Taiwan: ? + ? =
So, to encode an ASCII code like :TW:
to
To reverse it, we translate the regional indicator symbols back to ASCII letters.
Example
>>> import flag
>>> flag.flag("IL")
'??'
>>> flag.flag("GBENG")
'???????'
>>> flag.flagize("Flag of Israel :IL:")
'Flag of Israel ??'
>>> flag.dflagize("Flag of Israel ??")
'Flag of Israel :IL:'
>>> flag.flagize("England :gb-eng: is part of the UK :GB:", subregions=True)
'England ??????? is part of the UK ??'
>>> flag.dflagize("England ??????? is part of the UK ??", subregions=True)
'England :gb-eng: is part of the UK :GB:'
Install
pip install emoji-country-flag
See: https://pypi.org/project/emoji-country-flag/
Python 3.6 or higher is required for the latest release. The last release for Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 was v1.2.4.