Should this work?

>>> pycountry.currencies.lookup(u'EUR')
Currency(alpha_3='EUR', name='Euro', numeric='978')
>>> pycountry.currencies.lookup(u'€')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/michele/bitbucket/splitti/telegram/venv36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pycountry/db.py", line 43, in load_if_needed
    return f(self, *args, **kw)
  File "/Users/michele/bitbucket/splitti/telegram/venv36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pycountry/db.py", line 121, in lookup
    raise LookupError('Could not find a record for %r' % value)
LookupError: Could not find a record for '€'

Hi there! Out of curiosity, was there any decision behind not implementing the __eq__ method inside the Currency class?

In my - maybe naive - understanding, it would make sense to be able to compare Currency objects like so: Currency('USD') == Currency('USD') which as of now returns False, as the object's pointers are compared, not the values.

My workaround for this is as follows (python 3.10 code, for python < 3.10 the __ne__ method also needs to be implemented)

class ComparableCurrency(Currency):
    def __eq__(self, other):
        return isinstance(other, Currency) and self.get_money_currency() == other.get_money_currency()

If for any reason, it doesn't make sense to compare two Currencies with each other, or the implementation on currency.get_money_currency() is too simple, I would really like to undestand the problems with that.

What is the purpose of your pull request?

As per Issue: https://github.com/Alir3z4/python-currencies/issues/12

To add functionality to the main class whereby you can get the full currency name.

Important

• Added JSON file to 'currencies' folder called "currency_name.json"
• This JSON file is a basic key/value setup
• Most of these full name values should be the official/correct ones
• Source is mainly Google preview after search, as well as https://www.worlddata.info/currencies

Useage

from currencies import Currency

currency = Currency('USD')

currency.getname()

>>> 'United States Dollar'

Other Info

Resolves https://github.com/Alir3z4/python-currencies/issues/12 which can be closed now

It would be really great if the library would know the full name of the currency. For example:

>>> Currency('USD').get_name()
"United States dollar"

or

>>> Currency('EUR').get_name()
"Euro"

I think english names would be a good starting point, but I think there should be a way to translate the names? I thought of JSON files for each language that contains the name for each currency. The library could then choose the correct file automatically.

Would be nice if you could just write the country and get the currency, like

>>> portugal = Country('PORTUGAL')
>>> portugal.get_currency()
>>> EUR
>>> portugal.get_money_format(13)
>>> '€13'
>>> portugal.get_money_format(13.99)
>>> '€13.99'
>>> portugal.get_money_format('13,2313,33')
>>> '€13,2313,33'
>>>
>>> # Displaying with currency as well
>>>
>>> portugal.get_money_with_currency_format(13)
>>> '€13 EUR'
>>> portugal.get_money_with_currency_format(13.99)
>>> '€13.99 EUR'
>>> portugal.get_money_with_currency_format('13,2313,33')
>>> '€13,2313,33 EUR'