Python and EVE

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib
import urllib2
from xml.dom.minidom import parse

user_id = 2373898
api_key = "<snip>"
char_id = 1580122797

uri_base = 'http://api.eve-online.com'

api_pages = {
    'char list': '/account/Characters.xml.aspx',
    'acct cash': '/char/AccountBalance.xml.aspx',
}

def GetData(page, params):
    uri = uri_base + api_pages[page]
    doc = parse(urllib2.urlopen(uri, urllib.urlencode(params)))
    attrs = doc.getElementsByTagName('rowset')[0].getAttribute('columns').split(',')
    return [dict([(a, row.getAttribute(a)) for a in attrs]) \
            for row in doc.getElementsByTagName('row')]

def GetChars():
    return GetData('char list', {'userId': user_id, 'apiKey': api_key})

def GetAccount(char = char_id):
    return GetData('acct cash',
        {'userId': user_id,
         'apiKey': api_key,
         'characterID': char})