text: from pyticketswitch.mixins import JSONMixin
  
  
  class Country(JSONMixin, object):
      """Represents a country
  
      Attributes:
          code (str):  ISO 3166-1 country code.
          description (str): a human readable name for the country.
  
      """
  
      def __init__(self, code, description=None):
          self.code = code
          self.description = description
  
      @classmethod
      def from_api_data(cls, data):
          """Creates a new Country object from API data from ticketswitch.
  
          Args:
              data (dict): the part of the response from a ticketswitch API call
                  that concerns a country.
  
          Returns:
              :class:`Country <pyticketswitch.country.Country>`: a new
              :class:`Country <pyticketswitch.country.Country>` object
              populated with the data from the api.
  
          """
  
          kwargs = {
              'code': data.get('country_code'),
              'description': data.get('country_desc'),
          }
  
          return cls(**kwargs)
  
      def __repr__(self):
          return u'<Country {}:{}>'.format(
              self.code, self.description.encode('ascii', 'ignore'))
  