This is a pure Python alternative to MaxMind's C-based Python API for binary GeoIP databases. It is intended to make it easier to develop on Windows, or to simplify dependencies for things that don't require the speed/features of the C API. It is not entirely a drop-in replacement, but the most notable difference is the new and open methods are gone, in favor of instantiating the GeoIP class directly. The databases aren't distributed with the module, so you'll need to either buy them or download a lite edition here. Requires Python 2.5 or higher (Python 3.x support is in the works).

Supported Flags

• STANDARD (do all reads from disk, slowest)
• MEMORY_CACHE
• MMAP_CACHE (map the whole file to memory, fastest)

Supported Databases

Type	Methods
Country	country_code_by_name, country_code_by_addr, country_name_by_name, country_name_by_addr
City	record_by_name, record_by_addr, country_code_by_name, country_code_by_addr, country_name_by_name, country_name_by addr, region_by_name, region_by_addr
ISP	org_by_name, org_by_addr
Organization	org_by_name, org_by_addr
Region	region_by_name, region_by_addr, country_code_by_name, country_code_by_addr