How to implement python to find value between xml tags?
- by Harshit Sharma
I am using google site to retrieve weather information , I want to find values between XML tags. Following code give me weather condition of a city , but I am unable to obtain other parameters such as temperature and if possible explain working of split function implied in the code:
import urllib
def getWeather(city):
#create google weather api url
url = "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=" + urllib.quote(city)
try:
# open google weather api url
f = urllib.urlopen(url)
except:
# if there was an error opening the url, return
return "Error opening url"
# read contents to a string
s = f.read()
# extract weather condition data from xml string
weather = s.split("<current_conditions><condition data=\"")[-1].split("\"")[0]
# if there was an error getting the condition, the city is invalid
if weather == "<?xml version=":
return "Invalid city"
#return the weather condition
return weather
def main():
while True:
city = raw_input("Give me a city: ")
weather = getWeather(city)
print(weather)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Thank You
