election results

azsosxmlparse

import requests
import lxml
from lxml import etree
from decimal import *
from jinja2 import Template
import codecs

r = requests.get('http://www.azsos.gov/ftp/dbelec/detail.xml')
xml_source = r.text
root = etree.fromstring(xml_source)
timestamp = root.findall('Timestamp')[0].text

contests_xml = root.findall('Contest')
contests = []

for contest_xml in contests_xml:
    choices_xml = contest_xml.findall('Choice')
    choices = []
    vote_count = 0
    for choice_xml in choices_xml:
        choice = {
            'name': choice_xml.attrib['text'],
            'votes': Decimal(choice_xml.attrib['totalVotes']),
        }
        vote_count += choice['votes']
        choices.append(choice)
    
    for choice in choices:
        choice['pc_votes'] = '%0.1f' % (choice['votes'] / vote_count * 100)
    
    contest = {
    'key': contest_xml.attrib['key'],
    'name': contest_xml.attrib['text'],
    'timestamp': timestamp,
    'choices': choices,
    }

    contests.append(contest)

template_file = codecs.open('templates/graph.html','r', 'utf-8')
template_string = template_file.read()
template = Template(template_string)
template_file.close()

for contest in contests:
	output_file = codecs.open('/Users/evan.wyloge/Dropbox/Public/election_results/%s.html' % contest['key'], 'w', 'utf-8')
	output_file.write(template.render(contest=contest))
	output_file.close()