Read misc.language, httpstatus and mimetype from their registers, and keep a country's currency a column

data-import/language.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Rebuild data/misc/language.tsv from datasets/language-codes (PDDL), the LoC ISO 639-2 register.
+
+    data-import/language.py [--source URL_OR_FILE] [--cache DIR] [--out FILE]
+
+Only the 639-2 entries carrying a 639-1 code ship, since the alpha-2 code is the key.
+"""
+import argparse
+import csv
+import io
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import source
+import tsv
+
+SOURCE = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datasets/language-codes/main/data/language-codes-full.csv"
+OUT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "data" / "misc" / "language.tsv"
+CACHE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "cache"
+COLUMNS = ["code", "code3", "name"]
+
+
+def name(english):
+    """The register lists every synonym; the first, without its qualifier, is the one a selector spells."""
+    return re.sub(r"\s*\([^)]*\)", "", english.split(";")[0]).strip()
+
+
+def rows(text):
+    for r in csv.DictReader(io.StringIO(text)):
+        if r["alpha2"]:
+            yield {"code": r["alpha2"], "code3": r["alpha3-t"] or r["alpha3-b"], "name": name(r["English"])}
+
+
+def main():
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__.splitlines()[0])
+    p.add_argument("--cache", default=str(CACHE))
+    p.add_argument("--source", default=SOURCE)
+    p.add_argument("--out", default=str(OUT))
+    a = p.parse_args()
+    table = rows(source.fetch(a.source, a.cache, "language-codes-full.csv").decode("utf-8"))
+    tsv.write(a.out, COLUMNS, sorted(table, key=lambda r: r["code"]))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()