Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#10308 closed (wontfix)

us_states.STATE_CHOICES is missing AA, AE, AP, MH, PW

Reported by: MonteDavidoff Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.localflavor Version: 1.0
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

According to the official list of state abbreviations defined by the USPS, http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.html, django.contrib.localflavor.us.us_states is missing these abbreviations: AA, AE, AP, MH, and PW.

AA Armed Forces Americas
AE Armed Forces Europe / Canada / Middle East / Africa
AP Armed Forces Pacific
FM Federated States of Micronesia
MH Marshall Islands
PW Palau

Please note that the attached patch file also contains the fix for ticket #10307 (FM inconsistency).

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us_states.py.diff (2.4 KB ) - added by MonteDavidoff 16 years ago.

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Change History (7)

by MonteDavidoff, 16 years ago

Attachment: us_states.py.diff added

comment:1 by Russell Keith-Magee, 16 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

This exact patch was _removed_ in [8550], as part of #8425. This is a situation where we can't keep everyone happy, so we've opted for a minimum common set. If your requirements include PW,FM,NH etc, then it isn't hard to extend the basic widget to provide the extra choices.

comment:2 by Russell Keith-Magee, 16 years ago

The Armed forces postal codes are covered in a separate ticket: #9022. I'm not completely convinced we should include those, either, but I'll leave that decision to someone with an interest in US postal requirements.

comment:3 by Adrian Holovaty, 16 years ago

The intent here is to provide a list of the 50 states. For anything beyond that, you can just use a custom field.

comment:4 by MonteDavidoff, 16 years ago

Thank you for the explanation. I now understand and agree with the intent.

comment:5 by Daniel Pope <dan@…>, 16 years ago

I also have no interest in this, though I brought it up in #9022 because I read that missing state codes bites people frequently. It's the kind of omission that a lot of developers make by mistake and which frustrate users. Just seems sensible to me that Django could help developers stay on top of this either by allowing these or simply by documenting that this is not a comprehensive list for postal purposes.

comment:6 by James Bennett, 14 years ago

(In [15029]) Refactor the choices for localflavor's USStateField, and add new US postal code support. Fixes #14937 and #9022, refs #10308 and #8425.

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