Python weather application

[dc]

On Aug 30, 5:41 pm, Zentrader <zentrad... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 30, 12:45 pm, seancron <seanc... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Does anybody have any suggestions for getting started on desigining a
> > desktop weather application in Python?
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> > I've been looking for access to weather data and while I have found
> > several including the weather.com service I've decided to use the
> > Yahoo! Rss Weather feed since it doesn't have a license like the
> > weather.com service does. However one problem I have with it is that
> > it only accepts zip codes or locations ids.  So if a user was to enter
> > the name of the city instead of those two there would be an error. I
> > could make it so they could only enter in the location code or zip
> > code but I would really prefer to have it be automatically corrected.
> > Does anyone have ideas on how to go about this or have an other
> > suggestions?
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> > Thanks,
> > Sean
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> Use a dictionary to convert from the city chosen to the zip/location
> code to use at Yahoo.

You can purchase/subscribe a zip code database and then use that as a
reverse look-up for your user entering a city. try the postal service
website for the database info.