November 2015
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 29m
English
Let's now build a simple Weather Reporter application. The Weather data for any given location will be fetched from the network, suitably formatted and presented to the user.
We will use a higher-level module named urllib to fetch Weather data from the web. The urllib module is part of Python's standard library and it provides an easy to use API to work with URLs. It has four submodules:
urllib.request – for opening and reading URLsurllib.error – for handling exceptions raised by urllib.requesturllib.parse – for parsing URLsurllib.robotparser – for parsing robots.txt filesWith urllib.request, fetching the contents of a web page turns into a three-line code (see code 7.06_urllib_demo.py):
import urllib.request with urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.packtpub.com/') ...