我正在使用Python 3中的一个函数来查询eBird API中的小块XML,并用minidom解析它们。该函数定位并比较两个请求的XML块的日期,返回最新的。下面的代码完成了它的工作,但是我想问一下是否有一种更简单的方法(for循环似乎没有必要,因为XML的每一位都只有一个日期,并且逐位比较返回的字符串片段似乎笨重)。有没有更快的方法来产生相同的结果?
from xml.dom import minidom
import requests
def report(owl):
#GETS THE MOST RECENT OBSERVATION FROM BOTH USA AND CANADA
usa_xml = requests.get('http://ebird.org/ws1.1/data/obs/region_spp/recent?rtype=country&r=US&sci=surnia%20ulula&back=30&maxResults=1&includeProvisional=true')
canada_xml = requests.get('http://ebird.org/ws1.1/data/obs/region_spp/recent?rtype=country&r=CA&sci=surnia%20ulula&back=30&maxResults=1&includeProvisional=true')
usa_parsed = minidom.parseString(usa_xml.text)
canada_parsed = minidom.parseString(canada_xml.text)
#COMPARES THE RESULTS AND RETURNS THE MOST RECENT
usa_raw_date = usa_parsed.getElementsByTagName('obs-dt')
canada_raw_date = canada_parsed.getElementsByTagName('obs-dt')
for date in usa_raw_date:
usa_date = str(date.childNodes[0].nodeValue)
for date in canada_raw_date:
canada_date = str(date.childNodes[0].nodeValue)
if int(usa_date[0:4]) > int(canada_date[0:4]):
most_recent = usa_date
elif int(usa_date[5:7]) > int(canada_date[5:7]):
most_recent = usa_date
elif int(usa_date[8:10]) > int(canada_date[8:10]):
most_recent = usa_date
elif int(usa_date[11:13]) > int(canada_date[11:13]):
most_recent = usa_date
elif int(usa_date[14:16]) > int(canada_date[14:16]):
most_recent = usa_date
else:
most_recent = canada_date
return most_recent
答案 0 :(得分:2)
使用datetime.datetime.strftime()
将日期解析为datetime.datetime()
个对象,然后使用我们max()
来返回更大的值(最近的):
usa_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(
usa_raw_date[-1].childNodes[0].nodeValue, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
canada_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(
canada_raw_date[-1].childNodes[0].nodeValue, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
return max(usa_date, canada_date)
现在针对您提供的网址运行此操作,结果是:
>>> usa_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(
... usa_raw_date[-1].childNodes[0].nodeValue, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
>>> canada_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(
... canada_raw_date[-1].childNodes[0].nodeValue, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
>>> usa_date, canada_date
(datetime.datetime(2014, 5, 5, 11, 0), datetime.datetime(2014, 5, 11, 18, 0))
>>> max(usa_date, canada_date)
datetime.datetime(2014, 5, 11, 18, 0)
返回datetime.datetime()
个对象;如果返回一个字符串对你很重要,你总是可以返回:
return max(usa_date, canada_date).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
e.g。将datetime
对象再次格式化为字符串。