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Chapter14–WorkingwithCSVFilesandJSONData/quickWeather.py

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+#! /usr/bin/python3.5
+
+
+"""
+
+Author: Samrat Banerjee
+Dated: 08/09/2018
+Description: Project: Prints the weather for a location from the command line.
+
+"""
+
+import json, requests, sys
+
+# Compute location from command line arguments.
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+    print('Usage: quickWeather.py location')
+    sys.exit()
+location = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])
+
+# Download the JSON data from OpenWeatherMap.org's API.
+url ='http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?q=%s&cnt=3' % (location)
+response = requests.get(url)
+response.raise_for_status()
+
+# Load JSON data into a Python variable.
+weatherData = json.loads(response.text)
+
+# Print weather descriptions.
+w = weatherData['list']
+print('Current weather in %s:' % (location))
+print(w[0]['weather'][0]['main'], '-', w[0]['weather'][0]['description'])
+print()
+print('Tomorrow:')
+print(w[1]['weather'][0]['main'], '-', w[1]['weather'][0]['description'])
+print()
+print('Day after tomorrow:')
+print(w[2]['weather'][0]['main'], '-', w[2]['weather'][0]['description'])