On Dec 10, 6:10 am, "Nikos Vergas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Challenge: > > A valid response will be either a solution to the problem below, or a > > link to some code of which you > > are particularly proud. > > > Problem: In the dynamic language of your choice, write a short program > > that will: > > 1. define a list of the following user ids 42346, 77290, 729 (you can > > hardcode these, but it should > > still work with more or less ids) > > 2. retrieve an xml document related to each user at this url "http:// > > api.etsy.com/feeds/xml_user_details.php?id=" > > 3. retrieve the data contained in the city element from each xml > > document > > 4. keep a running total of how many users are found in each city > > 5. display the total count of users living in each city > > > You can assume user ids are valid and that the url is available. The > > output should look something > > like: > > > Charlotte: 1 > > New York: 2 > > i wanted to make it a one liner, but i had to import modules :( > > import sys, xml, urllib > > dummy = [sys.stdout.write(city + ': ' + str(num) + '\n') for city, num in > set([[(a, o.count(a)) for a in p] for o, p in [2*tuple([[city for city in > ((xml.dom.minidom.parseString(urllib.urlopen('http://api.etsy.com/feeds/xml_user_details.php?id=' > + str(id)).read()).getElementsByTagName('city')[0].childNodes + [(lambda > t: (setattr(t, 'data', 'no city'), > t))(xml.dom.minidom.Text())[1]])[0].data.lower().replace(' ', ' ') for id > in [71234, 71234, 71234, 71234, 71234, 71234, 42792])]])]][0])]
Cute, now can you make it readable? ;-) ~S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list