Adjacency List of States of the United States (US)

Some simple data is surprisingly hard to find.  Case in point: for some mapping projects, I wanted an adjacency list of the US states.  I couldn’t find one easily, so I made one.   Spread it far and wide!  This should be a pretty easy to digest form.  Figure out what states are next to each other (neighbors) with ease!

Potential gotchas:

1. I say the four corners (UT,CO,NM,AZ) all touch. If you don’t like it, take them out.
2. DC is a state here, but Guam, USVI and others aren’t.
3. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I recognize Missouri.

# Author Gregg Lind
# License:  Public Domain.    I would love to hear about any projects you use if it for though!

AK
AL,MS,TN,GA,FL
AR,MO,TN,MS,LA,TX,OK
AZ,CA,NV,UT,CO,NM
CA,OR,NV,AZ
CO,WY,NE,KS,OK,NM,AZ,UT
CT,NY,MA,RI
DC,MD,VA
DE,MD,PA,NJ
FL,AL,GA
GA,FL,AL,TN,NC,SC
HI
IA,MN,WI,IL,MO,NE,SD
ID,MT,WY,UT,NV,OR,WA
IL,IN,KY,MO,IA,WI
IN,MI,OH,KY,IL
KS,NE,MO,OK,CO
KY,IN,OH,WV,VA,TN,MO,IL
LA,TX,AR,MS
MA,RI,CT,NY,NH,VT
MD,VA,WV,PA,DC,DE
ME,NH
MI,WI,IN,OH
MN,WI,IA,SD,ND
MO,IA,IL,KY,TN,AR,OK,KS,NE
MS,LA,AR,TN,AL
MT,ND,SD,WY,ID
NC,VA,TN,GA,SC
ND,MN,SD,MT
NE,SD,IA,MO,KS,CO,WY
NH,VT,ME,MA
NJ,DE,PA,NY
NM,AZ,UT,CO,OK,TX
NV,ID,UT,AZ,CA,OR
NY,NJ,PA,VT,MA,CT
OH,PA,WV,KY,IN,MI
OK,KS,MO,AR,TX,NM,CO
OR,CA,NV,ID,WA
PA,NY,NJ,DE,MD,WV,OH
RI,CT,MA
SC,GA,NC
SD,ND,MN,IA,NE,WY,MT
TN,KY,VA,NC,GA,AL,MS,AR,MO
TX,NM,OK,AR,LA
UT,ID,WY,CO,NM,AZ,NV
VA,NC,TN,KY,WV,MD,DC
VT,NY,NH,MA
WA,ID,OR
WI,MI,MN,IA,IL
WV,OH,PA,MD,VA,KY
WY,MT,SD,NE,CO,UT,ID

Adventures in Nose: nosetests and unbuffered stdout.

In some of our server code, we like to insure we get unbuffered output, like in perl.  In Python, this is easy to do:

import sys

sys.stdout = os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(), 'w', 0)

However, using the wonderful nosetest for testing will barf on this code, because it reassigns stdout to a cStringIO for capturing.

This is a workaround:

import sys
import os

try:   # get unbuffered output
    sys.stdout = os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(), 'w', 0)
except AttributeError, exc: # under nose, sys.stdout is reassigned to a string buffer
    pass

def test():
    assert 1

Alternately, run nosetests -s, which disables the output capture feature.

Cf:  my embarrassing bug report over at nose