Soukhna Wade

Soukhna Wade

Data Science Portfolio

Weather-Introduction-to-programming

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print(‘//****************************************’) print(‘// DSC510_Final Project-Weather’) print(‘// Course: DSC510_Introduction to programming-Python’) print(‘// Author Name: Soukhna Wade ‘) print(‘// Date: 11/20/2020’) print(‘//*****************************************\n’)

import requests from pprint import pprint

Global Variables

Note that there are restrictions on the “Free API” Make sure that you don’t submit too many requests

apiKey = “c05250b637031a772b7adbfe110350c5” url = “http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather” headers = { ‘cache-control’: “no-cache”, }

This method will do a weather lookup by city by taking the city as a parameter

def retrieveWeatherByCity(city): querystring = {“q”: city + “,us”, “units”: “imperial”, “APPID”: apiKey} try: response = requests.request(“GET”, url, headers=headers, params=querystring) except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: print(e)

parseWeather(response)

This method will do a weather lookup by zip

This method takes the zipCode as a parameter

def retrieveWeatherByZip(zipCode): querystring = {“zip”: zipCode + “,us”, “units”: “imperial”, “APPID”: apiKey} try: response = requests.request(“GET”, url, headers=headers, params=querystring) except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: print(e)

# print(response.url)
# print(response.text)

parseWeather(response)

The following method will parse the weather data, present that weather data to the user then takes the response as a parameter

def parseWeather(response): weatherJSON = response.json()

# print(weatherJSON) This is a great troubleshooting line which can be quickly enabled to see your JSON
pressure = weatherJSON['main']['pressure']
temp = weatherJSON['main']['temp']
maxTemp = weatherJSON['main']['temp_max']
minTemp = weatherJSON['main']['temp_min']
humidity = weatherJSON['main']['humidity']
clouds = weatherJSON['clouds']['all']

if (clouds > 75):
    cloudiness = "Full Cloud Cover"
elif (clouds > 50 and clouds < 75):
    cloudiness = "Partial Cloud Cover"
else:
    cloudiness = "Minimual Cloud Cover"
print("\nCurrent Weather Conditions For " + weatherJSON['name'])
print("Current Temp: " + str(temp) + " degrees")
print("High Temp: " + str(maxTemp) + " degrees")
print("Low Temp: " + str(minTemp) + " degrees")
print("Pressure: " + str(pressure) + "hPa")
print("Humidity: " + str(humidity) + "%")
print("Cloud Cover: " + cloudiness)

””” This mian method will prompt the user to make a selection between doing a weather lookup based upon city or zipcode The main method will then call a method to do the weather lookup based upon whether the user entered a city or zip “””

def main(): runApp = True # The program should allow the user to run it multiple times. This is one way to do that. while runApp: lookupType = input( “\nWould you like to lookup weather data by US City or zip code? Enter 1 for US City 2 for zip: “)

    if (lookupType == "1"):
        city = input("Please Enter The City Name: ")
        retrieveWeatherByCity(city)
    elif (lookupType == "2"):
        zipCode = input("Please enter the zip code: ")
        retrieveWeatherByZip(zipCode)
    else:
        print("Enter a valid option.  Please enter 1 to lookup by city.  Enter 2 to lookup by zip code")
    runApp = input("\nWould you like to perform another weather lookup? (Y/N): ").lower()
    if runApp in 'n':
        break

if name == “main”: main()

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