From b46b7d4c2b8e421a9cb7aef3467144e7527ce805 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Hill <matthill@openalpr.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:01:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added set_country function to Python bindings

---
 src/bindings/python/openalpr/openalpr.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 src/bindings/python/openalprpy.cpp       |  8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/bindings/python/openalpr/openalpr.py b/src/bindings/python/openalpr/openalpr.py
index 63981dd..439715c 100644
--- a/src/bindings/python/openalpr/openalpr.py
+++ b/src/bindings/python/openalpr/openalpr.py
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ class Alpr():
 
         self._free_json_mem_func = self._openalprpy_lib.freeJsonMem
 
+        self._set_country_func = self._openalprpy_lib.setCountry
+        self._set_country_func.argtypes = [ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_char_p]
 
         self._set_default_region_func = self._openalprpy_lib.setDefaultRegion
         self._set_default_region_func.argtypes = [ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_char_p]
@@ -168,6 +170,17 @@ class Alpr():
         """
         self._set_top_n_func(self.alpr_pointer, topn)
 
+    def set_country(self, country):
+        """
+        This sets the country for detecting license plates. For example,
+        setting country to "us" for United States or "eu" for Europe.
+
+        :param region: A unicode/ascii string (Python 2/3) or bytes array (Python 3)
+        :return: None
+        """
+        country = _convert_to_charp(country)
+        self._set_country_func(self.alpr_pointer, country)
+
     def set_default_region(self, region):
         """
         This sets the default region for detecting license plates. For example,
diff --git a/src/bindings/python/openalprpy.cpp b/src/bindings/python/openalprpy.cpp
index 331df29..5a4d039 100644
--- a/src/bindings/python/openalprpy.cpp
+++ b/src/bindings/python/openalprpy.cpp
@@ -96,6 +96,14 @@ extern "C" {
       return membuffer;
     }
 
+  OPENALPR_EXPORT void setCountry(Alpr* nativeAlpr, char* ccountry)
+    {
+      // Convert strings from java to C++ and release resources
+      std::string country(ccountry);
+
+      nativeAlpr->setCountry(country);
+    }
+  
   OPENALPR_EXPORT void setDefaultRegion(Alpr* nativeAlpr, char* cdefault_region)
     {
       // Convert strings from java to C++ and release resources