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#!/usr/bin/env python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

#

# untitled.py

#

# Copyright 2013 Scott Thomson <scott@scott-Aspire-6930G>

#

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

# (at your option) any later version.

#

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

# GNU General Public License for more details.

#

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,

# MA 02110-1301, USA.

#

#

import urllib2

url = "http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=United_Kingdom&region=England&city=Cheltenham#.UZjdrrKIicE"

def remove_chars(s, chars):

"""Useful utility, send it a drity string and a string of characters to strip from the dirty string"""

for c in chars:

s = s.replace(c,"")

return s

def main():

req = urllib2.Request(url)

response = urllib2.urlopen(req)

data = response.read()

data = remove_chars(data, '\t\n\r')

table = data.split(r'<TABLE WIDTH=600 ALIGN=CENTER>')[1]

table = table.split(r'</TABLE>')[0]

row = table.split(r'<TR>')[1]

row = row.split(r'</TR>')[0]

#print row

details = row.split(r'<TD ')

dets = []

for item in details:

#<font face=Arial size=-1>ISS</font></CENTER>

item = item.strip()

item = item.split(r'</font></CENTER></TD>')[0]

item = item[10:]

dets.append(item)

#rint "*",item

for i in dets:

print i

time = dets[2][25:-12]

duration = dets[3][33:]

max_elev = dets[4][33:]

print time, duration, max_elev

return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':

main()