by ISO 3166 as country codes, but the are reserved by IANA
nonetheless.  The commonly used uk ccTLD is part of this group, near
as I can tell.

Not sure this is better in all cases.

parse(): Fixed a bug in the output; the dict is referred to in the
code as `countries' not `country'.  Also added no-case-fold for the
string "U.S." since the Virgin Islands name no longer wraps those in
parentheses.

main(): Fixed the argument parsing to agree with the docstring, i.e.
--outputdict instead of --output.

In the module docstring:

- updated my email address
- we don't need to explain about Python 1.5 regexps <wink>

We also don't need to wrap the import of re with a try/except.

Other style fixes:

- untabification
- revert back to <> style everywhere (and consistently)

This patch replaces string module functions with string
methods in the Tools/world/world scripts.

It also updates two outdated URLs and the countrycodes
dictionary.

It fixes a bug where result of string.find() was checked
for truth instead of compared with -1.

It also replaces <> with != in two spots.

    there is "su" top level domain still maintained in ex-USSR.  at
    least "*.msk.su" zone (Moscow, USSR) is still in use.

Pick's emailed account.

<cdtv@amigager.de>.

<lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>