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Weather Cloud Program

This Python script retrieves weather data from an online API by city name, writes it to a text file, then reads the data back from the file. It defines functions to output a header, get the weather description and temperature in Kelvin from the data, and convert Kelvin to Fahrenheit. The main code calls the API for Denver, CO, writes the response to a file, then reads it back and prints the output.

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Weather Cloud Program

This Python script retrieves weather data from an online API by city name, writes it to a text file, then reads the data back from the file. It defines functions to output a header, get the weather description and temperature in Kelvin from the data, and convert Kelvin to Fahrenheit. The main code calls the API for Denver, CO, writes the response to a file, then reads it back and prints the output.

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# Programmer : Nick Kounavelis

# Date : May 1, 2018


# Comment : Weather conditions by city name - JSON output

import urllib.request

# function definition - code


def convertKtoF(kelvin):
fahrenheit = (((kelvin - 273.14) * 1.8) + 32.0)
return fahrenheit

# function definition - code


def outputHeader():
print()
print("---------------------------------------------------------------------")
print("This is the weather string coming back from the cloud weather service")
print("---------------------------------------------------------------------")

# function definition - code


def getDescription(weatherData):
description=""
if weatherData.find("description") != -1:
tempOffset=weatherData.find("description")
tempOffset=tempOffset + 14
while weatherData[tempOffset] != '"':
description=description + weatherData[tempOffset]
tempOffset=tempOffset + 1

print("====================")
print("Weather conditions : ", description)
print("====================")

# function definition - code


def getTemperature(weatherData):
temperature=""
if weatherData.find("temp") != -1:
tempOffset=weatherData.find("temp")
tempOffset=tempOffset + 6
while weatherData[tempOffset] != ',':
temperature=temperature + weatherData[tempOffset]
tempOffset=tempOffset + 1

print("=======================")
print("Temperature in Kelvin : ", temperature)
print("=======================")

f_temp = convertKtoF(float(temperature))
print("=========================")
print("Temperature in Fahrenheit : ", format(f_temp, ".2f"))
print("=========================")

#
# main code starts here
#
city="Denver"
country="US"

# build the URL string


urlString = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?
q="+city+","+country+"&APPID=7ef1e1037f2e9bd211bd6d040743dee9"
webPage=urllib.request.urlopen(urlString)

#processing
outputHeader() # user-defined function - make a function call

for objline in webPage:


line = str(objline)
print(line)

#getDescription(line)
#getTemperature(line)

# write weather information to the disk


print()
print("----- Writing information to the hard disk -----")
outFile = open("weatherInfo.txt", "a")
outFile.write(line + "\r\n")
outFile.close()

# read data from the hard disk


try:
print()
print("----- Reading weather data from the hard disk -----")
print("---------------------------------------------------")
print("---------------------------------------------------")
readFile=open("weatherInfo.txt", "r")
line=readFile.readline()
while line != "":
print(line)
line=readFile.readline()
readFile.close()

except IOError:
print()
print("ERROR : IO error occurred!")
print()

#
# close the web page
#
print("Have a nice day!")
webPage.close()

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