python bindings

[Christopher Nilsson]

Hi folks,

I've uploaded a first attempt at some python bindings for the openaustralia api.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/openaustralia

Links to source, docs, etc are there.  It sticks closely to what I've seen from the other php & ruby bindings on your site.


It's flagged as an alpha at the moment, so if there are any pythonistas out there who are interested, you can give it a try like so:

$ pip install --pre openaustralia

(The --pre allows python to install the alpha packages...)


Then the usual stuff can happen:

In [2]: from openaustralia.api import OpenAustralia

In [3]: oa = OpenAustralia(key)

In [4]: mps = oa.get_representatives(postcode='2010')

In [5]: mps
Out[5]:
[{u'constituency': u'Sydney',
  u'entered_house': u'1998-10-03',
  u'entered_reason': u'general_election',
  u'first_name': u'Tanya',
  u'full_name': u'Tanya Plibersek',
  u'house': u'1',
  u'image': u'/images/mpsL/10513.jpg',

... etc...


Anyways, any feedback, votes against, feel free.

Cheers,
Chris.

[Henare Degan]

Awesome stuff Chris!

Are you using this on a project?

Cheers,

Henare

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[Christopher Nilsson]

Hey Henare,

Only vague ideas right now.  Basically, I caught the radio segment, on fbi about theyvoteforyou not so long ago, and was feeling keen. :)

This was mostly an excersize in familiarising myself with the framework in place, etc. 

As time allows, I'll have a poke around the github issue list and see if there's anything I can help out with. 
Can likely help with the PHP side of things, but I'm lacking Ruby knowledge (hence the python binding).

Any particular tags / tickets that'll be useful for a newbie to start looking at?

[Henare Degan]

That's so brilliant! I'll have a think about things you might be interested in working on. In the mean time...

If you're in Sydney and free tonight you should definitely come along for a drink and a chat: http://www.meetup.com/OpenAustralia-Foundation/events/219147060/

I'll also invite you to our chat room.

Cheers,

Henare