Hello, Thank you for your feedback. Sorry it took me a while to revise my code but here is my code with the changes: import urllib2 import json
locu_api = 'redacted' def locu_search(query): api_key = locu_api url = 'https://api.locu.com/v1_0/venue/search/?api_key=' + api_key locality = query.replace(' ', '%20') final_url = url + '&locality=' + locality + "&category=restaurant" jason_obj = urllib2.urlopen(final_url) data = json.load(jason_obj) for item in data['objects']: print item['name'], item['phone'], item['street_address'] def region_search(query): api_key = locu_api url = 'https://api.locu.com/v1_0/venue/search/?api_key=' + api_key region = query.replace(' ', '%20') final_url = url + '®ion=' + region + "&category=restaurant" jason_obj = urllib2.urlopen(final_url) data = json.load(jason_obj) for item in data['objects']: print item['name'], item['phone'], item['street_address'], item['locality'], item['website_url'] def zip_search(query): api_key = locu_api url = 'https://api.locu.com/v1_0/venue/search/?api_key=' + api_key zip = query.replace(' ', '%20') final_url = url + '&zip=' + zip + "&category=restaurant" jason_obj = urllib2.urlopen(final_url) data = json.load(jason_obj) for item in data['objects']: print item['name'], item['phone'], item['street_address'], item['categories'], item['website_url'] ans=True while ans: print (""" 1.Search by City 2.Search by Region (State Abbreviation) 3.Search by Zip 4.Exit/Quit """) ans=raw_input("What would you like to do? ") if ans=="1": locality = raw_input("\nEnter City ") print locu_search(locality) break elif ans=="2": region = raw_input("\n Search by State ") print region_search(region) break elif ans=="3": zip = raw_input("\n Search by Zip ") print zip_search(zip) break elif ans=="4": print("\n Goodbye") break ----- I am not sure if above changes exactly reflect your suggestions but I tested the logic and it seems to work. The only issue is that on the first two queries (locu_search(locality) and region_search(region)) I receive the following traceback error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/dell/Documents/Python/MyProject/API_Projects/locu/locuAPI.py", line 47, in <module> print locu_search(locality) File "C:/Users/dell/Documents/Python/MyProject/API_Projects/locu/locuAPI.py", line 14, in locu_search print item['name'], item['phone'], item['street_address'] File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 12, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table) UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u200e' in position 29: character maps to <undefined> The last query about zip definition works perfectly. Please share thoughts on the revised logic and recommendation for handling the error above. Thanks! Please Thank you. On Monday, October 12, 2015 8:30 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote: On 13/10/15 00:32, Nym City wrote: > > ans=raw_input("What would you like to do? ") > if ans=="1": > locality = raw_input("\nEnter City ") > break > elif ans=="2": > region = raw_input("\n Search by State ") > break > elif ans=="3": > zip = raw_input("\n Search by Zip ") > break > elif ans=="4": > print("\n Goodbye") > break > ... The use case is that by not knowing which of the 4 options the > user will select, But you know what they select after they have done it so you need to wait till that point to run the appropriate query. And ans tells you which choice the user made. > NameError: name 'locality' is not defined > > -------- > The error points back to where this is: > > varibles = [locu_search(locality), region_search(region), zip_search(zip)] > > I don't understand why Python thinks that locality (and others) are > not defined when I defined them at the very beginning. > You didn't. You only define them once the user makes a choice. eg. If the ans is 3 then locality and region are not defined. But even if they were (with default values) you don;t want to run all the queries each time. Only run the query selected by the user. So call the query functions in the if/else structure where you set the variables. HTH -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
