politician.sparql

SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel ?height
WHERE 
{
  VALUES ?o {
    wd:Q48352
    wd:Q2285706
  }
  ?item wdt:P21 wd:Q6581097;
        wdt:P39 ?postition.
  ?postition wdt:P279 ?o.
  ?item wdt:P2048 ?height.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}
ORDER BY DESC (?height)

whos_a_big_boy.py

query = """
SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel ?height
WHERE 
{
  VALUES ?o {
    wd:Q48352
    wd:Q2285706
  }
  ?item wdt:P21 wd:Q6581097;
        wdt:P39 ?postition.
  ?postition wdt:P279 ?o.
  ?item wdt:P2048 ?height.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}
ORDER BY DESC (?height)
"""

result = mkwikidata.run_query(query)

leaders = result['results']['bindings']

c = {}

leader_names = ["Robert Mugabe", "Vladimir Lenin", "Adolf Hitler", "Vladimir Putin", "Joseph Stalin"]

for leader in leaders:
    name = leader['itemLabel']['value']
    height = leader['height']['value']
    if name in leader_names:
        c[name] = float(height)

c