[Tutor] possibly a version error

[Michael Harleman]

> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:04:17 +0100
> From: jugurtha.hadjar at gmail.com
> To: tutor at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] possibly a version error
> 
> On 22/12/2011 18:13, Cranky Frankie wrote:
> > I got it to work:
> >
> > Use this for the import - import urllib.request
> >
> > the use this: dom = minidom.parse(urllib.request.urlopen(url))
> >
> > Here's the code that works in 3.2:
> >
> > from pprint import pprint
> > import urllib.request
> > from xml.dom import minidom
> >
> > WEATHER_URL = 'http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=%s'
> > WEATHER_NS = 'http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0'
> >
> > def weather_for_zip(zip_code):
> >      url = WEATHER_URL % zip_code
> >      dom = minidom.parse(urllib.request.urlopen(url))
> >      forecasts = []
> >      for node in dom.getElementsByTagNameNS(WEATHER_NS, 'forecast'):
> >          forecasts.append({
> >              'date': node.getAttribute('date'),
> >              'low': node.getAttribute('low'),
> >              'high': node.getAttribute('high'),
> >              'condition': node.getAttribute('text')
> >          })
> >      ycondition = dom.getElementsByTagNameNS(WEATHER_NS, 'condition')[0]
> >      return {
> >          'current_condition': ycondition.getAttribute('text'),
> >          'current_temp': ycondition.getAttribute('temp'),
> >          'forecasts': forecasts,
> >          'title': dom.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].firstChild.data
> >      }
> >
> > pprint(weather_for_zip(12303))
> >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I tried it and it works fine (Python 3.2, Windows XP (5.1.2600) )
> 
> Here's what I got:
> 
>   {'current_condition': 'Light Rain',
>   'current_temp': '37',
>   'forecasts': [{'condition': 'AM Rain/Snow',
>                  'date': '23 Dec 2011',
>                  'high': '39',
>                  'low': '16'},
>                 {'condition': 'Partly Cloudy',
>                  'date': '24 Dec 2011',
>                  'high': '31',
>                  'low': '20'}],
>   'title': 'Yahoo! Weather - Schenectady, NY'}
> 
> 
> I'll probably tinker with it to make it show the weather here in Algiers 
> (Algeria, North Africa).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> -- 
> ~Jugurtha Hadjar,

I'm a newbie, but I played around with your code to see if I could get 
it to work in 2.7 and it required changing the same line to:      



dom = minidom.parse(urllib.URLopener().open(url))



Just in case someone here were to find that helpful.



Mike Harleman