#!/usr/bin/env python3 # coding: utf-8 # update/be_banks.py - script to download Bank list from Belgian National Bank # # Copyright (C) 2018-2019 Arthur de Jong # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA # 02110-1301 USA """This script downloads the list of banks with bank codes as used in the IBAN and BIC codes as published by the Belgian National Bank.""" import os.path import requests import xlrd # The location of the XLS version of the bank identification codes. Also see # https://www.nbb.be/en/payment-systems/payment-standards/bank-identification-codes download_url = 'https://www.nbb.be/doc/be/be/protocol/current_codes.xls' # List of values that refer to non-existing, reserved or otherwise not- # allocated entries. not_applicable_values = ( '-', 'Indisponible', 'LIBRE', 'NAP', 'NAV', 'NYA', 'Onbeschikbaar', 'VRIJ - LIBRE', 'VRIJ', 'nav', ) def clean(value): """Clean up and convert read values removing various placeholder names.""" value = value.strip() if value not in not_applicable_values: return value return '' def get_values(sheet): """Return values (from, to, bic, bank_name) from the worksheet.""" rows = sheet.get_rows() # skip first two rows try: next(rows) next(rows) except StopIteration: pass # ignore empty worksheet # go over rows with values for row in rows: row = [clean(column.value) for column in row] low, high, bic = row[:3] bank = ([x for x in row[3:] if x] + [''])[0] if bic or bank: yield low, high, bic.replace(' ', ''), bank if __name__ == '__main__': response = requests.get(download_url, timeout=30) response.raise_for_status() workbook = xlrd.open_workbook(file_contents=response.content) sheet = workbook.sheet_by_index(0) version = sheet.cell(0, 0).value print('# generated from %s downloaded from' % os.path.basename(download_url)) print('# %s' % download_url) print('# %s' % version) for low, high, bic, bank in get_values(sheet): info = '%s-%s' % (low, high) if bic: info += ' bic="%s"' % bic if bank: info += ' bank="%s"' % bank print(info)