j8jacobs

# original link found here: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/1047/seeking-full-list-of-iso-alpha-2-and-iso-alpha-3-country-codes
import csv
import urllib.request as urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import sys

# helper function to get text and anchor tag text
# this removes the new line characters, connects all the elements of the column
def format_text(array):
    return ''.join(array).strip()