import urllib2 from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup class City: "A simple container of arbitrary named attributes." def __init__(self, **kw): self.__dict__.update(kw) def __repr__(self): return str(self.__dict__) def FetchCityLocations(): """A Sampling of Location Information about Cities An example of fetching XML representing information about a handful of cities along with the state within which they reside and their latitude/longitude. """ page = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/cities.xml") soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(page) page.close() cities = [] for city in soup.cities.findAll('city'): c = City( name=city['name'], state=city['state'], latitude="%s.%s%s" % ( city.lat['deg'], city.lat['min'], city.lat['dir']), longitude="%s.%s%s" % ( city.long['deg'], city.long['min'], city.long['dir']), ) cities.append(c) return cities cities = FetchCityLocations() print cities
Note(s):
- This example uses standard Python except for
[http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ the BeautifulSoup package] which must be installed separately.