Convert CLDR zones into Mediawiki markup

list_zones.py

import xml.dom.minidom 
import os.path
import urllib2

def getText(item):
    return " ".join(t.nodeValue for t in item.childNodes if t.nodeType == t.TEXT_NODE)


def get_file(filename, url):
    f = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    output = open(filename,'wb')
    output.write(f.read())
    output.close()

def get_file_if_missing(filename, url):
    if not os.path.isfile(filename):
       print ("Downloading data file. Please wait...")
       get_file(filename, url)

def save_file(filename, content):
        f = open(filename, 'w')
        f.write(content)
        f.close()

def sort_dict(adict):
    keys = adict.keys()
    keys.sort()
    return map(adict.get, keys)
       
###################
get_file_if_missing('he.xml', 'http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/tags/release-21/common/main/he.xml?format=txt')

dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse ("he.xml")
tz = dom.getElementsByTagName("timeZoneNames")[0]
zones = tz.getElementsByTagName("zone")

list = dict()

for zone in zones:
    item = dict()
    item['type'] = zone.getAttribute('type')
    item['value'] = getText(zone.getElementsByTagName('exemplarCity')[0])
    list[item['type']] = item

list = sort_dict(list)    

print "{| "  
for item in list:
    print "|",
    for word in item['type'].split("/"):
        print u"{:^30} ||".format(u"[[:en:{0}|{1}]]".format(word,word)),
    for word in item['value'].split("/"):
        print u"{:^30} ||".format(u"[[{0}]]".format(word)),
    print
    print "|{:-^102}".format("")
print "|}"