XML parsing the weather

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XML parsing the weather

Dec 16th, 2007

Hey guys, new poster so if I am in the wrong spot please just let me know.
The below code should read the weather off Yahoo, and create a dictionary containing a bunch of variables and their values from the weather (temp = 9 or whatever), it doesn't. How is it possible to read in some XML, parse it, and spit out some variables that make sense?

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import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
import urllib2
 
# get the weather off the web
 
weather_online = urllib2.urlopen("http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=94089&u=c")
 
# except, that's an object, make it actual xml
 
weather_web = weather_online.read()
 
 
weather_cache = open(".\weather_cache.xml", "wb")
weather_cache.write(weather_web)
 
# Parse it
 
weather_xml = et.XML(weather_web)
 
# print the actual XML we are working off out
 
# print weather_web
 
# and read it into variables
vars = {}
for item in weather_xml:
	print item.text
	vars[item.tag] = item.text
 
import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
import urllib2

# get the weather off the web

weather_online = urllib2.urlopen("http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=94089&u=c")

# except, that's an object, make it actual xml

weather_web = weather_online.read()


weather_cache = open(".\weather_cache.xml", "wb")
weather_cache.write(weather_web)

# Parse it

weather_xml = et.XML(weather_web)

# print the actual XML we are working off out

# print weather_web

# and read it into variables
vars = {}
for item in weather_xml:
	print item.text
	vars[item.tag] = item.text