San Diego Surf Report script for Android Scripting

gistfile1.py

"""Display the (scraped) surf report for San Diego from the noaa in a notification."""
__author__ = 'Nikolaj Baer <nkolaj.baer@gmail.com>'
__copyright__ = 'Copyright (c) 2009'
__license__ = 'MIT License'

import urllib,re

LOCATION="San Diego"
AREA="SGX"
REPORT_URL="http://newweb.wrh.noaa.gov/sgx/print_version.php?sid=%s&pil=SRF&version=0"%AREA

def get_report():
    rp={} 
    x=urllib.urlopen(REPORT_URL).read()
    report=x[x.find("<pre>")+5:]
    report=report[:report.find("</pre>")].replace("<br>","\n").replace("<hr>","\n")
    msg=report[report.find("SURF HEIGHT"):report.find("**")].rstrip()

    # Wacky parsing
    rep={"location":LOCATION}
    for l in msg.split('\n'):
        n=l.strip().rstrip(".")
        if n.startswith("SURF HEIGHT"):
            rep["height"]=n[n.rfind(".")+1:]
            rep["heights"]=[int(x) for x in re.findall("\d+",rep["height"])]
        elif n.startswith("WATER TEMPERATURE"):
            rep["temp"]=n[n.rfind(".")+1:]
            rep["temps"]=[int(x) for x in re.findall("\d+",rep["temp"])]
        elif n.startswith("OUTLOOK"):
            rep["nxt"]=n[n.rfind(".")+1:]
            rep["tomorrow"]=[int(x) for x in re.findall("\d+",rep["nxt"])]
    return rep

if __name__=="__main__":
    rep=get_report()
    msg="""Today: %(height)s, %(temp)s\nTomorrow: %(nxt)s"""
    try:
        import android
        droid=android.Android()
        droid.notify(msg%rep,"%s Surf Conditions"%LOCATION,msg%rep) 
        droid.exit()
    except ImportError:
        print msg%rep
        print rep