add every country in the world, apart from those which don't have capitals

scripts/generate_countries_list.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import sys
+import json
+
+
+def get_args():
+    """ Get command line arguments """
+
+    import argparse
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument('file', help="The countries.json file to generate the output from", type=str)
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def main(args):
+    """ Entry point for script """
+    with open(args.file) as fp:
+        countries = json.load(fp)
+
+    r = {}
+
+    for country in countries:
+        if len(country['capital']) < 1 or country['capital'][0] is None:
+            continue
+        r[country['name']['common']] = country['capital'][0]
+
+    print('capitals = ', end='')
+    print(json.dumps(r))
+
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    try:
+        sys.exit(main(get_args()))
+    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+        sys.exit(0)