Python weather application

seancron

Does anybody have any suggestions for getting started on desigining a
desktop weather application in Python?

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?

Thanks,
Sean

Aug 30 '07 #1

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Zentrader

On Aug 30, 12:45 pm, seancron <seanc...@gmail.comwrote:

Does anybody have any suggestions for getting started on desigining a
desktop weather application in Python?

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?

Thanks,
Sean

Use a dictionary to convert from the city chosen to the zip/location
code to use at Yahoo.

Aug 30 '07 #2

On Aug 30, 5:41 pm, Zentrader <zentrad...@gmail.comwrote:

On Aug 30, 12:45 pm, seancron <seanc...@gmail.comwrote:

Does anybody have any suggestions for getting started on desigining a
desktop weather application in Python?

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?

Thanks,
Sean

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.

Sep 1 '07 #3

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