[Zope] ZWeather?

Tim Wilson wilson@chemsun.chem.umn.edu
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:58:43 -0500 (CDT)


Hi everyone,

I've been thinking that it would be cool to have current weather
conditions displayed on our science dept. home page. Getting the current
conditions involves requesting them from weather.noaa.gov according to a
code that refers to your location. There is already a little Python
program that does this via email: 

http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/06/29/930711471.html

Unfortunately, I'm a Zope newbie and not sure how to approach this.
Obviously (at least it seems to me), you don't want Zope sending out a
fresh request every time your page is updated. Is it possible for Zope to
cache the results of the lookup for some period of time?

Does this seem like a reasonable thing to accomplish via Zope?

-Tim

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