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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
