Do not rely on dicts.merge to change target
Also make dicts.merge actually not touch target. This is much cleaner
than modifying in place, especially since we assign the result of the
dicts.merge call to target most of the time anyway.
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
"""
An alphabetical list of provinces and territories for use as `choices`
in a formfield., and a mapping of province misspellings/abbreviations to
normalized abbreviations
Source: http://www.canada.gc.ca/othergov/prov_e.html
This exists in this standalone file so that it's only imported into memory
when explicitly needed.
"""
PROVINCE_CHOICES = (
('AB', 'Alberta'),
('BC', 'British Columbia'),
('MB', 'Manitoba'),
('NB', 'New Brunswick'),
('NF', 'Newfoundland and Labrador'),
('NT', 'Northwest Territories'),
('NS', 'Nova Scotia'),
('NU', 'Nunavut'),
('ON', 'Ontario'),
('PE', 'Prince Edward Island'),
('QC', 'Quebec'),
('SK', 'Saskatchewan'),
('YK', 'Yukon')
)
PROVINCES_NORMALIZED = {
'ab': 'AB',
'alberta': 'AB',
'bc': 'BC',
'b.c.': 'BC',
'british columbia': 'BC',
'mb': 'MB',
'manitoba': 'MB',
'nb': 'NB',
'new brunswick': 'NB',
'nf': 'NF',
'newfoundland': 'NF',
'newfoundland and labrador': 'NF',
'nt': 'NT',
'northwest territories': 'NT',
'ns': 'NS',
'nova scotia': 'NS',
'nu': 'NU',
'nunavut': 'NU',
'on': 'ON',
'ontario': 'ON',
'pe': 'PE',
'pei': 'PE',
'p.e.i.': 'PE',
'prince edward island': 'PE',
'qc': 'QC',
'quebec': 'QC',
'sk': 'SK',
'saskatchewan': 'SK',
'yk': 'YK',
'yukon': 'YK',
}