add epl table geeklet

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/geeklets/epl_table.py b/geeklets/epl_table.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5251bac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/geeklets/epl_table.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
+import urllib2
+
+url="http://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/league.xml?comp=1"
+
+# make empty if no home/favorite team
+hometeam = "Liverpool"
+
+root = ET.parse(urllib2.urlopen(url)).getroot()
+
+print "%3s %-20s %4s %4s %-3s" % ("POS","CLUB","PD","GD","PTS")
+
+for team in root.findall('team'):
+    pos = team.find('position').text
+    name = team.find('name').text
+    played = team.find('played').text
+    GD = team.find('goalDifference').text
+    points = team.find('points').text
+    # if you'd like to shorten say West Bromwich Albion to WBA,
+    # then you can uncomment the following:
+    #if len(name.split(' ')) > 2:
+    #   shortName = ""
+    #   for word in name.split(' '):
+    #       shortName += word[0]
+    #   name = shortName
+    if name == hometeam:
+        # to change highlight color, change 41 to 41-47:
+        # 41 - red
+        # 42 - green
+        # 44 - blue
+        print "\033[1;41m%3s %-20s %4s %4s %3s \033[0;49m" % (pos, name, played, GD, points)
+    else:
+        print "%3s %-20s %4s %4s %3s" % (pos, name, played, GD, points)
+