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forecast.py

This is a simple program that gets a forecast from the free API from wunderground, extracts and prints current forecast by zipcode.

Requires ElementTree from xml.etree, which may need to be installed

forecast.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import urllib2
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET


def getforecast(zipcode):
    """gets current forecast from wunderground"""
    url='http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query={}'
    forecastxml = urllib2.urlopen(url.format(zipcode)).read()
    fc = ET.fromstring(forecastxml) 
    time_str     = fc.find(".//txt_forecast//title")
    forecast_str = fc.find(".//txt_forecast//fcttext")
    return((time_str.text,forecast_str.text))


def main(zipcode):
    """get zip from argv and print"""
    print "Weather for {0}: {1}".format(*getforecast(zipcode))

    # time_str.text,forecast_str.text)
    
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    default_zip = 48824
    zipcode = default_zip
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        zipcode = sys.argv[1]        
    
    main(zipcode)