weather: use requests library over urllib/json

dr_botzo/weather/lib.py

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 
-import json
 import logging
 import re
-import urllib.request, urllib.error, urllib.parse
+import requests
 
 from django.conf import settings
 
@@ -22,8 +21,8 @@ def get_conditions_for_query(queryitems):
     try:
         url = wu_base_url + ('{0:s}/q/{1:s}.json'.format('conditions', query))
         log.debug("calling %s", url)
-        json_resp = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
-        condition_data = json.load(json_resp)
+        resp = requests.get(url)
+        condition_data = resp.json()
     except IOError as e:
         log.error("error while making conditions query")
         log.exception(e)
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ def get_conditions_for_query(queryitems):
 
     # condition data is loaded. the rest of this is obviously specific to
     # http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs?d=data/conditions
-    log.debug(json.dumps(condition_data, sort_keys=True, indent=4))
+    log.debug(condition_data)
 
     try:
         # just see if we have current_observation data
@@ -135,8 +134,8 @@ def get_forecast_for_query(queryitems):
 
     try:
         url = wu_base_url + ('{0:s}/q/{1:s}.json'.format('forecast', query))
-        json_resp = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
-        forecast_data = json.load(json_resp)
+        resp = requests.get(url)
+        forecast_data = resp.json()
     except IOError as e:
         log.error("error while making forecast query")
         log.exception(e)
@@ -144,7 +143,7 @@ def get_forecast_for_query(queryitems):
 
     # forecast data is loaded. the rest of this is obviously specific to
     # http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs?d=data/forecast
-    log.debug(json.dumps(forecast_data, sort_keys=True, indent=4))
+    log.debug(forecast_data)
 
     try:
         # just see if we have forecast data