Watch tennis in the terminal by PH and pops. Quick'n'dirty

tennis_watch.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import requests
import time
import sys

ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.112 Safari/535.1'
referer = 'http://www.lequipe.fr/Tennis/Directs'

def getData(url):
    req = requests.get(url, headers={'referer': referer, 'user-agent': ua})
    return req.json()

format_name = lambda x: "{PRENOM} {NOM}".format(**x)  # fonction anonyme
# ** permet d'utiliser un dict comme arguments nommés * pour les list

def getResults(url):
    data = getData(url)
    out = ""
    max_name_length = 0
    
    # For prettier formatting
    for player in ['1', '2']:
        player_length = len(format_name(data['JOUEURS']['JOUEUR%s' % (player,)]))  
        if player_length > max_name_length:
             max_name_length = player_length
    
    max_name_length += 5  # Add space for service 
    
    for player in ['1', '2']:
        service = ""
        name =  format_name(data['JOUEURS']['JOUEUR%s' % (player,)])
        
        if data['JOUEURS']['SERVICE'] == player:
            service = "(S) "
        
        title_line = "%s %s" % (service, name)
        out +=  '{:>{max_name_length}}'.format(title_line, max_name_length=max_name_length)  # > to align on the right with max_name_length spacing (http://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html?highlight=string%20common%20string%20operations#format-string-syntax)
        
        out += " | " .join([data['JOUEURS']['SET%s' % (player,) ][set_nb] for set_nb in ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5']])  #  Join similaire a implode en PHP
        out += "\n"
    out += 40*"-"
    print out

def getGames():
    data = getData('http://www.lequipe.fr/directs/empreintes/checkTennis.json')
    return [ "%s/%s/%s" % (key.split('-')[0], key[-2:], key.split('-')[1]) for key in data]

if __name__=='__main__': # Permet d'importer les fonctions dans un autre prog dans executer ce code
    while True:
        sys.stdout.flush()
        arr = getGames()
        for url in arr:
            getResults("http://www.lequipe.fr/directs/empreintes/" + url + ".json")
        time.sleep(10)
        sys.stdout.write("\x1b[1A"*len(arr)*3)