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A call sign prefix lookup
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itulookup.py
# The source is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_prefix
data = {\
"A[A-L]": "United States",
"A[M-O]": "Spain",
"A[P-S]": "Pakistan",
"A[T-W]": "India",
"AX": "Australia",
"A[Y-Z]": "Argentina",
"A2": "Botswana",
"A3": "Tonga",
"A4": "Oman",
"A5": "Bhutan",
"A6": "United Arab Emirates",
"A7": "Qatar",
"A8": "Liberia",
"A9": "Bahrain",
"B": "China",
"B[M-QU-X]": "Taiwan",
"C[A-E]": "Chile",
"C[F-K]": "Canada",
"C[L-M]": "Cuba",
"CN": "Morocco",
"CO": "Cuba",
"CP": "Bolivia",
"C[Q-U]": "Portugal",
"C[V-X]": "Uruguay",
"C[Y-Z]": "Canada",
"C2": "Nauru",
"C3": "Andorra",
"C4": "Cyprus",
"C5": "The Gambia",
"C6": "The Bahamas",
"C7": "World Meteorological Organization",
"C[8-9]": "Mozambique",
"D[A-R]": "Germany",
"D[S-T]": "South Korea",
"D[U-Z]": "Philippines",
"D[2-3]": "Angola",
"D4": "Cape Verde",
"D5": "Liberia",
"D6": "Comoros",
"D[7-9]": "South Korea",
"E[A-H]": "Spain",
"E[I-J]": "Ireland",
"EK": "Armenia",
"EL": "Liberia",
"E[M-O]": "Ukraine",
"E[P-Q]": "Iran",
"ER": "Moldova",
"ES": "Estonia",
"ET": "Ethiopia",
"E[U-W]": "Belarus",
"EX": "Kyrgyzstan",
"EY": "Tajikistan",
"EZ": "Turkmenistan",
"E2": "Thailand",
"E3": "Eritrea",
"E4": "Palestinian Authority",
"E5": "Cook Islands",
"E6": "Niue",
"E7": "Bosnia and Herzegovina",
"F": "France (and its Overseas departments/territories)",
"G": "United Kingdom (and its overseas territories/Crown dependencies)",
"HA": "Hungary",
"HB": "Switzerland",
"HB (HB0, HB3Y, HBL) ": "Liechtenstein (uses prefixes allocated to Switzerland)",
"H[C-D]": "Ecuador",
"HE": "Switzerland",
"HF": "Poland",
"HG": "Hungary",
"HH": "Haiti",
"HI": "Dominican Republic",
"H[J-K]": "Colombia",
"HL": "South Korea",
"HM": "North Korea",
"HN": "Iraq",
"H[O-P]": "Panama",
"H[Q-R]": "Honduras",
"HS": "Thailand",
"HT": "Nicaragua",
"HU": "El Salvador",
"HV": "Vatican City",
"H[W-Y]": "France (and its Overseas departments/territories)",
"HZ": "Saudi Arabia",
"H2": "Cyprus",
"H3": "Panama",
"H4": "Solomon Islands",
"H[6-7]": "Nicaragua",
"H[8-9]": "Panama",
"I": "Italy",
"J[A-S]": "Japan",
"J[T-V]": "Mongolia",
"J[W-X]": "Norway",
"JY": "Jordan",
"JZ": "Indonesia",
"J2": "Djibouti",
"J3": "Grenada",
"J4": "Greece",
"J5": "Guinea-Bissau",
"J6": "Saint Lucia",
"J7": "Dominica",
"J8": "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines",
"K": "United States",
"L[A-N]": "Norway",
"L[O-W]": "Argentina",
"LX": "Luxembourg",
"LY": "Lithuania",
"LZ": "Bulgaria",
"L[2-9]": "Argentina",
"M": "United Kingdom (and its overseas territories/Crown dependencies)",
"N": "United States",
"O[A-C]": "Peru",
"OD": "Lebanon",
"OE": "Austria",
"O[F-J]": "Finland",
"O[K-L]": "Czech Republic",
"OM": "Slovakia",
"O[N-T]": "Belgium",
"O[U-Z]": "Denmark",
"P[A-I]": "Netherlands",
"PJ": "Netherlands - Former Netherlands Antilles",
"P[K-O]": "Indonesia",
"P[P-Y]": "Brazil",
"PZ": "Suriname",
"P2": "Papua New Guinea",
"P3": "Cyprus",
"P4": "Aruba",
"P[5-9]": "North Korea",
"R": "Russia",
"S[A-M]": "Sweden",
"S[N-R]": "Poland",
"SS[A-M]": "Egypt",
"SS[N-Z]|ST[A-Z]": "Sudan",
"SU": "Egypt",
"S[V-Z]": "Greece",
"S[2-3]": "Bangladesh",
"S5": "Slovenia",
"S6": "Singapore",
"S7": "Seychelles",
"S8": "South Africa",
"S9": "Sao Tome and Principe",
"T[A-C]": "Turkey",
"TD": "Guatemala",
"TE": "Costa Rica",
"TF": "Iceland",
"TG": "Guatemala",
"TH": "France (and its Overseas departments/territories)",
"TI": "Costa Rica",
"TJ": "Cameroon",
"TK": "France (and its Overseas departments/territories)",
"TL": "Central African Republic",
"TM": "France (and its Overseas departments/territories)",
"TN": "Republic of the Congo",
"T[O-Q]": "France (and its Overseas departments/territories)",
"TR": "Gabon",
"TS": "Tunisia",
"TT": "Chad",
"TU": "Ivory Coast",
"T[V-X]": "France (and its Overseas departments/territories)",
"TY": "Benin",
"TZ": "Mali",
"T2": "Tuvalu",
"T3": "Kiribati",
"T4": "Cuba",
"T5": "Somalia",
"T6": "Afghanistan",
"T7": "San Marino",
"T8": "Palau",
"U[A-I]": "Russia",
"U[J-M]": "Uzbekistan",
"U[N-Q]": "Kazakhstan",
"U[R-Z]": "Ukraine",
"V[A-G]": "Canada",
"V[H-N]": "Australia",
"VO": "Canada (formerly Dominion of Newfoundland)",
"V[P-Q]": "United Kingdom (and its overseas territories/Crown dependencies)",
"VR": "Hong Kong (Special administrative regions of China)",
"VS": "United Kingdom",
"V[T-W]": "India",
"V[X-Y]": "Canada",
"VZ": "Australia",
"V2": "Antigua and Barbuda",
"V3": "Belize",
"V4": "Saint Kitts and Nevis",
"V5": "Namibia",
"V6": "Federated States of Micronesia",
"V7": "Marshall Islands",
"V8": "Brunei",
"W": "United States",
"X[A-I]": "Mexico",
"X[J-O]": "Canada",
"XP": "Denmark",
"X[Q-R]": "Chile",
"XS": "China",
"XT": "Burkina Faso",
"XU": "Cambodia",
"XV": "Vietnam",
"XW": "Laos",
"XX": "Macao (Special administrative regions of China)",
"X[Y-Z]": "Burma",
"YA": "Afghanistan",
"Y[B-H]": "Indonesia",
"YI": "Iraq",
"YJ": "Vanuatu",
"YK": "Syria",
"YL": "Latvia",
"YM": "Turkey",
"YN": "Nicaragua",
"Y[O-R]": "Romania",
"YS": "El Salvador",
"Y[T-U]": "Serbia",
"Y[V-Y]": "Venezuela",
"Y[2-9]": "Germany",
"ZA": "Albania",
"Z[B-J]": "United Kingdom (and its overseas territories/Crown dependencies)",
"Z[K-M]": "New Zealand",
"Z[N-O]": "United Kingdom (and its overseas territories/Crown dependencies)",
"ZP": "Paraguay",
"ZQ": "United Kingdom (and its overseas territories/Crown dependencies)",
"Z[R-U]": "South Africa",
"Z[V-Z]": "Brazil",
"Z2": "Zimbabwe",
"Z3": "North Macedonia",
"Z8": "South Sudan",
"2": "United Kingdom (and its overseas territories/Crown dependencies)",
"3A": "Monaco",
"3B": "Mauritius",
"3C": "Equatorial Guinea",
"3DA-3DM": "Eswatini",
"3DN-3DZ": "Fiji",
"3[E-F]": "Panama",
"3G": "Chile",
"3[H-U]": "China",
"3V": "Tunisia",
"3W": "Vietnam",
"3X": "Guinea",
"3Y": "Norway",
"3Z": "Poland",
"4[A-C]": "Mexico",
"4[D-I]": "Philippines",
"4[J-K]": "Azerbaijan",
"4L": "Georgia",
"4M": "Venezuela",
"4O": "Montenegro",
"4[P-S]": "Sri Lanka",
"4T": "Peru",
"4U": "United Nations",
"4V": "Haiti",
"4W": "Timor-Leste",
"4X": "Israel",
"4Y": "International Civil Aviation Organization",
"4Z": "Israel",
"5A": "Libya",
"5B": "Cyprus",
"5[C-G]": "Morocco",
"5[H-I]": "Tanzania",
"5[J-K]": "Colombia",
"5[L-M]": "Liberia",
"5[N-O]": "Nigeria",
"5[P-Q]": "Denmark",
"5[R-S]": "Madagascar",
"5T": "Mauritania",
"5U": "Niger",
"5V": "Togo",
"5W": "Western Samoa",
"5X": "Uganda",
"5[Y-Z]": "Kenya",
"6[A-B]": "Egypt",
"6C": "Syria",
"6[D-J]": "Mexico",
"6[K-N]": "South Korea",
"6O": "Somalia",
"6[P-S]": "Pakistan",
"6[T-U]": "Sudan",
"6[V-W]": "Senegal",
"6X": "Madagascar",
"6Y": "Jamaica",
"6Z": "Liberia",
"7[A-I]": "Indonesia",
"7[J-N]": "Japan",
"7O": "Yemen",
"7P": "Lesotho",
"7Q": "Malawi",
"7R": "Algeria",
"7S": "Sweden",
"7[T-Y]": "Algeria",
"7Z": "Saudi Arabia",
"8[A-I]": "Indonesia",
"8[J-N]": "Japan",
"8O": "Botswana",
"8P": "Barbados",
"8Q": "Maldives",
"8R": "Guyana",
"8S": "Sweden",
"8[T-Y]": "India",
"8Z": "Saudi Arabia",
"9A": "Croatia",
"9[B-D]": "Iran",
"9[E-F]": "Ethiopia",
"9G": "Ghana",
"9H": "Malta",
"9[I-J]": "Zambia",
"9K": "Kuwait",
"9L": "Sierra Leone",
"9M": "Malaysia",
"9N": "Nepal",
"9[O-T]": "Democratic Republic of the Congo",
"9U": "Burundi",
"9V": "Singapore",
"9W": "Malaysia",
"9X": "Rwanda",
"9[Y-Z]": "Trinidad and Tobago",
}
import re
# start with exceptions:
seq = [k for k,_ in data.items()]
seq.sort(key=(lambda x: len(x)),reverse=1)
# precompile the regex in advance
rec = [(re.compile(i), data[i]) for i in seq]
# some tests
test = "4X4YQ OD5TM EK2JL PY7REW 4L1VU 9K2FR BBBBB BU3XX BQ2AA".split()
# perform the test
for i in test:
print(f'{i}', end=' ', flush=True)
for r,c in rec:
p = r.match(i)
if p:
print(c)
break
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