Question

Question6: Write a program to read the file 202010mid.txt, store the content in a list of tuples, then print the list. [6 marks]

Question7: Write Python code to do the following operations using request library. [12 marks]

Check if the following webpage is available or not: https://edition.cnn.com/news.html [4 marks]

Send a get request to the following webpage and show the result: http://api.open-notify.org/iss-pass.json [4 marks]

The webpage from part 2 is expecting some parameters as shown from the results. Now create a parameter with two key:value pairs as per the following: lat with value 40.71 and lon with value -74. Send a get request now with the parameter you created and display the result.[4 marks]

Answer 1

Q6. The question does not include 202010mid.txt. Have made assumptions about the file and written the code; if any doubts, please ask in comments:

tuplst = []
with open ("202010mid.txt", "r") as f:
    while True:
        s = f.readline()
        if s == '':
            break
        pair = s.split()
        t = (pair[0], pair[1])
        tuplst.append (t)
        
print (tuplst)
    
//////// Here is the output ////////////////////////////////////////
[('Arnold', '85'), ('Schwarz', '62'), ('Peter', '70'), ('Nick', '90'), ('Don', '99'), ('Trump', '40')]  


//////// This is for an input file that looks like this /////////////////
Arnold 85
Schwarz  62
Peter   70
Nick    90
Don 99
Trump 40

Q7. part 1:

import requests
x = requests.get ("https://edition.cnn.com/news.html")
if (x.status_code != 200):
    print ("Page not found.")

Running the above shows 'Page not found.' since the request returns a 404 error.

Q7. part 2:

import requests
url = "http://api.open-notify.org/iss-pass.json"
par = {'lat' : 40.71, 'lon' : -74}
r = requests.get (url, par)
print (r.json())

## Below are the results
{'message': 'success', 'request': {'altitude': 100, 'datetime': 1604213248, 'latitude': 40.71, 'longitude': -74.0, 'passes': 5}, 'response': [{'duration': 653, 'risetime': 1604214313}, {'duration': 596, 'risetime': 1604220175}, {'duration': 560, 'risetime': 1604226062}, {'duration': 622, 'risetime': 1604231891}, {'duration': 645, 'risetime': 1604237696}]}