[Vobject] Formatting international addresses

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Martin,

> Unfortunately, the output format is that used in the US, not in
> Switzerland, where post code would precede city without any
> punctuation or double spaces between:
> 
>  Mystreet 1\n8050 Zurich\nSwitzerland
> 
> The only mail on the matter I found was
> http://lists.brotherharris.com/pipermail/vobject/2009-January/000172.html,
> but the thread does not provide a solution.
> 
> Am I expecting too much functionality from vobject?
> 
> Would this functionality make sense in vobject?
> 
> Do you know of another class to use to provide this functionality?

Indeed, there's zero localization of addresses. I don't know of Python libraries that have this sort of localization already written, but the resulting Address is little more than a glorified struct, adding an optional field that changes the __str__ behavior would be fine.

As always patches are welcome.

- Jeffrey