gistfile1.txt

import sys
import urllib2                                                                   
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET                                               

PING_URL = 'http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=%s'              


def fetch_sitemaps(sitemapindex):
    response = urllib2.urlopen(sitemapindex)
    xml = response.read()
    root = ET.fromstring(xml)
    for loc in root.getiterator('{http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}loc'):
      yield loc.text


def resubmit(sitemap):                                                         
    url = PING_URL % sitemap                                                   
    response = urllib2.urlopen(url)                                            
    print response.read()                                                      


if __name__ == '__main__':                                                     
    for sitemap in fetch_sitemaps(sys.argv[1]):
        resubmit(sitemap)