On Aug 30, 12:45 pm, seancron <seanc...@gmail.com> 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.