Remote data access: World Bank

[DaveBackus]

A minor issue: The function in pandas.io.data uses 2-letter codes to identify countries in data requests, rather than the more common 3-letter codes. The latter is closer to the social norm at the iMF, World Bank, etc. More important, they're easier to track down. If you download the World Bank data (all of it), the data includes country names and 3-letter codes, but not 2-letter codes. So to me the 3-letter codes would be more user-friendly.

Cheers.

http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/remote_data.html#world-bank

[jreback]

this prob could be added pretty easily (and accept both 2/3 letter codes). interested in doing a pull-request?

[DaveBackus]

Interesting idea, I'll give it a try. I'm a newbie, though, making a
transition from Matlab and R.

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this prob could be added pretty easily (and accept both 2/3 letter codes).
interested in doing a pull-request?

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[jreback]

np. always welcome new contributors, see here for help: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/wiki

[DaveBackus]

Cool, thank you. I may have some candidates for the Cookbook in a month or
two.

More at https://github.com/DaveBackus/Data_Bootcamp

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np. always welcome new contributors, see here for help:
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[jnmclarty]

Dave, if you don't do a PR for this, I could probably tackle it. Let me know if you want help.

[DaveBackus]

Hi Jeff,

It'll be a while till I get to this, feel free to charge ahead.

Dave

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Dave, if you don't do a PR for this, I could probably tackle it. Let me
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[jnmclarty]

@jreback
The enhancement is done, just need to see how I go about testing it, and writing a test (if I need to?), and then update the right 'what's new' after I figure out which pandas version it would go into. 0.15.1? or 0.16? The change is trivial, however it is technically an API change.

@DaveBackus If you really want the feature sooner, you could copy and paste wb.py into your sitepackage/pandas/io folder.

Edit: Removed note about PEP8. Done.

[DaveBackus]

Perfect, thanks a lot.

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@jreback https://github.com/jreback
The enhancement is done, just need to see how I go about testing it, and
writing a test (if I need to?), and then update the right 'what's new'
after I figure out which pandas version it would go into. 0.15.1? or 0.16?
The change is trivial, however it is technically an API change. Also need
to pep8.

@DaveBackus https://github.com/DaveBackus If you really want the
feature sooner, you could copy and paste wb.py into your
sitepackage/pandas/io folder.

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