Python and Weather.com

[Fazer]

Hello,

I made a small python script that gives the current weather conditions
of a city that you give as an argument.  Here's the basic function
behind it:

I am really a beginnering when it comes to parsing XML but I just used
split to get the values I wanted.  Any ideas how I can use proper XML
parsing techniques?

Also, the weather degree is in celcius but I conver it to fahrenheit
as well. :-)

Here's the code:

# Get the weather for the city specified
def get_weather(city):
	#city = city.replace(" ", "%20")
	w = urllib.urlopen("http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where=%s" %
city.replace(" ", "%20")).read()
	# Check if there were matches
	if not city.isalpha() or w.find("loc") < 0:
		return "No matches found for city of " + city + "!"

	# If so, use the first search result and use it
	city = w.split("</loc>", 1)[0].split("<loc")[1].split(">")[1]
	# Get location id of the first city
	locid = w.split("</loc>", 1)[0].split("<loc")[1].split('"', 2)[1]
	# Get weather readings
	weather = urllib.urlopen("http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/%s?cc=*&prod=xoap&par=xxx&key=xxx&unit=m"
%
	locid).read()
	# Get conditions
	reading = weather.split("</t>")[0].split("<t>")[1]
	# Get temperature
	temp = weather.split("</tmp>")[0].split("<tmp>")[1]
	if "N/A" in temp:
		return "Error"
	else:
		temp = int(temp)
	
	return "Weather for %s is %s C / %s F and %s" % (city,temp,(temp *
1.8) + 32,reading)


Hope it helps anyone out there.  Please feel free to fix anything I
may have done wrong.  Comments greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Faizan S.