geonamescache is a small Python library that provides functions to retrieve names and codes of continents, countries and US states as Python dictionaries. The included geonames data is obtained from http://www.geonames.org/. The module can be downloaded from PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/geonamescache The source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/yaph/geonamescache Happy geocoding! Ramiro