scrapes google autocomplete suggestions

autocomplete.py

import sys
import urllib
import time
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
q = sys.argv[1]
url = 'http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&hl=en&q=' + urllib.quote(q.strip() + ' ')

def suggest(url):
    try:
        result = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
        xml = ET.fromstring(result)
        for child in xml:
            content = child[0].attrib['data'].encode('utf8')
            print content
    except:
        return False


suggest(url)

for c1 in chars:
    suggest(url + c1)
    time.sleep(.1)

    for c2 in chars:
        suggest(url + c1 + c2)
        time.sleep(.1)