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"""

This is to show simple COVID19 info fetching from worldometers site using lxml

* The main motivation to use lxml in place of bs4 is that it is faster and therefore

more convenient to use in Python web projects (e.g. Django or Flask-based)

"""

from typing import NamedTuple

import requests

from lxml import html

class CovidData(NamedTuple):

cases: int

deaths: int

recovered: int

def covid_stats(url: str = "https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/") -> CovidData:

xpath_str = '//div[@class = "maincounter-number"]/span/text()'

return CovidData(

*html.fromstring(requests.get(url, timeout=10).content).xpath(xpath_str)

)

fmt = """Total COVID-19 cases in the world: {}

Total deaths due to COVID-19 in the world: {}

Total COVID-19 patients recovered in the world: {}"""

print(fmt.format(*covid_stats()))

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