Payal's Web Dictionary Exercise

Code:

import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error import json

serviceurl = ‘http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?’

while True: address = input(‘Enter location: ‘) if len(address) < 1 : break

url = serviceurl + urllib.parse.urlencode(
    {'sensor':'false', 'address': address})

print('Retrieving', url)
uh = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
data = uh.read().decode()
print('Retrieved',len(data),'characters')

try:
    js = json.loads(data)
except:
    js = None

if not js or 'status' not in js or js['status'] != 'OK':
    print('==== Failure To Retrieve ====')
    print(data)
    continue

print(json.dumps(js, indent=4))

placeID = js['results'][0]['place_id']
print("Place ID:", placeID) 
location = js['results'][0]['formatted_address']
print("Location:", location)
lat = js["results"][0]["geometry"]["location"]["lat"]
lng = js["results"][0]["geometry"]["location"]["lng"]
print('Latitude:',lat)
print('Longitude:',lng)
results = js['results']
resultsLength = len(js['results'])
if len(results) > 1:
  print("Other Locations With the Same Name:")
  x =resultsLength - 1 
  while x > 0: 
    print(results[(x)]['formatted_address'])
    x = x - 1
    # if x == -1: 
    #   break

Links:

https://trinket.io/python3/b6547564e8

Reflection:

This program pulls the Place ID, latitude, longitude, and formatted address. The last three were already provided in the program, so pulling the Place ID was fairly simple because I was able to base the formatting off of those. When I tried different location searches I realized that some searches had more results than others depending on what was entered by the user. In order to accommodate this I created an if statement with a nested while loop that would print out the formatted addresses if there was more than one results for the users’ search. I first tried to use a for loop for this, however, I kept getting errors so I tried using a while loop which ended up working.