Lecture 11/25/2025

bigos/lecture20251118/dictionaries/dictionary4.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Create three dictionaries
 dict1 = {'fName': 'Edward', 'lName': 'Bigos', 'Office': 617, 'Phone': '413-755-4544'}
-dict2 = {'fName': 'Bill', 'lName': 'Gates', 'Office': 700, }
+dict2 = {'fName': 'Bill', 'lName': 'Gates', 'Office': 700, 'email': 'bgates@microsoft.com'}
 dict3 = {'fName': 'Harry', 'lName': 'Smith', 'Office': 677, 'Phone': '413-000-0000'}
 
 # Put the three dictionaries in a list

bigos/lecture20251125/urllib/iss/iss-4a.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import json
 import urllib.request
 import turtle
 import pprint
-
+import sys
 import time
 
 debugFlag = True
@@ -16,9 +16,13 @@ result = json.loads(response.read())
 if debugFlag:
     pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
     pp.pprint(result)
-    time.sleep(10)
+#    time.sleep(10)
+
+
+
 
 people = result['people']
+
 ISSpeople = []
 Tiangongpeople = []
 
@@ -34,7 +38,8 @@ if debugFlag:
     pp.pprint(ISSpeople)
     print("Tiangongpeople")
     pp.pprint(Tiangongpeople)
-    time.sleep(10)
+#    time.sleep(10)
+
 
 print("People on the ISS: ",len(ISSpeople))
 for person in ISSpeople :
@@ -44,19 +49,30 @@ print("People on the Tiangong: ",len(Tiangongpeople))
 for person in Tiangongpeople :
     print(f"\t{person}")
 
+## ============================================================
+
+try:
+    url = 'http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json'
+    response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
+    result = json.loads(response.read())
+except:
+    print("ERROR: The sever at NASA did not respond. ")
+    print("Please try again later.")
+    sys.exit(-1)
+
+
+if debugFlag:
+    print(type(result))
+    print(result)
 
-url = 'http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json'
-response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
-result = json.loads(response.read())
 
-print(result)
 
 location = result['iss_position']
 latitude = location['latitude']
 longitude = location['longitude']
-
-print('Latitude:  ',latitude)
-print('Longitude: ',longitude)
+if debugFlag:
+    print('Latitude:  ',latitude)
+    print('Longitude: ',longitude)
 
 screen = turtle.Screen()