Weather Proxy via Python

gistfile1.txt

#! /usr/bin/env python                                                                                                                                                                                                 

import urllib, cgi, random, string

cgi_params = cgi.FieldStorage()

lat = cgi_params.getvalue('lat') or '42.3265152'
lon = cgi_params.getvalue('lon') or '-122.87559490000001'
unit = cgi_params.getvalue('unit') or 0
lg = cgi_params.getvalue('lg') or 'english'
fcst = cgi_params.getvalue('fcsttype') or 'dwml'
#nocache = "".join( [random.choice(string.digits) for i in xrange(8)] )                                                                                                                                                
nocache = 123

params = urllib.urlencode({'lat': lat, 'lon':lon, 'unit':unit, 'lg': lg, 'FcstType': fcst, 'nocache': nocache})
response = urllib.urlopen("http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?%s" % params)

print "Content-Type: application/xml"
print response.read()