Emencia Django French Zones

French regions and departments utilities for your Django projects.

Contents

• Installation
• In your projects
• Usage

Installation

You could retrieve the last sources from http://github.com/Fantomas42/emencia-django-french_zones and running the installation script

$> python setup.py install

or use pip

$> pip install -e git://github.com/Fantomas42/emencia-django-french_zones.git#egg=emencia.django.french_zones

In your projects

Register emencia.django.french_zones in your INSTALLED_APPS section your project settings.

>>> INSTALLED_APPS = (
...   # Your favorites apps
...   'emencia.django.french_zones',
... )

Now you can run a syncdb for installing the models into your database and all the french regions with her departments associated contained in a fixture.

Usage

With the fixture loaded on the database you can easily retrieve the Department and the Region associated with a french postal code.

>>> from emencia.django.french_zones.utils import get_region_from_postal_code
>>> from emencia.django.french_zones.utils import get_department_from_postal_code

>>> get_department_from_postal_code('62138')
... <Department: Pas-de-Calais>

>>> get_region_from_postal_code('62138')
... <Region: Nord Pas-de-Calais>