504.sagews

import urllib, string, time

KP_URL = 'http://sec.noaa.gov/rpc/costello/ace_pkp_15m.txt'

a = urllib.urlopen(KP_URL)
b = a.read()
a.close()

localfile = '/tmp/get_kp.txt';

a = open(localfile,'w');
a.write(b);
a.close();

a = open(localfile,'r');
lines = []
while 1:
    line = a.readline()

    # check for end of file
    if not line:
        print "shouldn't have hit this ?? (exit)"
        exit

    # ignore lines starting with '#' or ':' --- they're comments
    if line[0] == ':' or line[0] == '#': continue

    # parse the line into bits.  The last string is a Kp value
    g = string.split(line);

    # the string '-1.00' marks "no value available yet"
    if g[-1] == '-1.00':
        break
    else:
        lines = line, lines[:]

a.close(); # done with the file now.

# print out the current time (UT)
t = time.gmtime(time.time())
print '# current time UT %d %02d %02d %02d%02d' % (t[0],t[1],t[2],t[3],t[4])

# now pring
s = string.split(lines[0]);

# print out the time at which the last Kp is available
print '# recent Kp at UT %s %s %s %s' % (s[0],s[1],s[2],s[3])
kp = s[-1]
print kp

Traceback (most recent call last): localfile = '/tmp/get_kp.txt'; File "", line 1, in <module> File "/tmp/tmpgqzwmB/___code___.py", line 5, in <module> a = urllib.urlopen(KP_URL) NameError: name 'urllib' is not defined