On Aug 30, 5:41 pm, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 30, 12:45 pm, seancron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list