Country name from ISO short code in dictionary, how to deal with non-ascii chars

[Robᵩ via StackOverflow]

If your input charset is limited to ASCII, you can still get the accents you need by using escape sequences. Try this:

import pycountry
import pprint
pprint.pprint ({country.alpha2 : country.name for country in pycountry.countries})

This produces lines like this one:

 u'CI': u"C\xf4te d'Ivoire",

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