Script to allow viewing of scores of in-progress college basketball games on the command line

ncaa_basketball_scores.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Python script to allow viewing of scores of in-progress college basketball games
on the command line. Scores come from Yahoo Sports.

Requirements:
    BeautifulSoup
"""
import re
import urllib2

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup


def print_scores():
    url = 'http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/scoreboard'
    soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(url))
    scoretables = soup.findAll('table', {'class': 'scores'})

    for table in scoretables:
        team1row = table.findAll('tr')[-4]
        team1 = team1row.find('a').renderContents()
        team1score = team1row.find('span', {'class': 'yspscores'}).renderContents()
        if re.search(r'\d\d(am|pm)', team1score):
            continue

        timeleft = team1row.findAll('span', {'class': 'yspscores'})[-1].renderContents()

        team2row = table.findAll('tr')[-2]
        team2 = team2row.find('a').renderContents()
        team2score = team2row.find('span', {'class': 'yspscores'}).renderContents()
        half = team2row.findAll('span', {'class': 'yspscores'})[-1].renderContents()

        print '%s%s%s' % (team1, ' ' * (25 - len(team1)), team1score)
        print '%s%s%s' % (team2, ' ' * (25 - len(team2)), team2score)
        print '%s%s%s' % (timeleft, ' ' * (25 - len(timeleft)), half)
        print '-' * 40

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print_scores()