PyStrawpoll 0.1.4

Python API wrapper for strawpoll (https://github.com/vaibhav-y/py-strawpoll)

Python wrapper for Strawpoll’s API. Provides methods for reading from and writing to strawpoll via its JSON api.

About

py-strawpoll provides the following:

StrawpollAPIReader class containing methods:

• from_json(string): Read a strawpoll into memory from its JSON representation
• from_url(url): Read a strawpoll into memory from it’s URL (uses API endpoint to fetch)
• from_apiv2(poll_id): Read a strawpoll into memory via it’s poll id (uses API endpoint to fetch)
• total_votes()
• normalize(): Normalize a poll to the [0, 1] range
• votes_for(option_string): Get the raw count of votes for a specific option string
• normalized_votes_for(option_string): Get the normalized votes for a specific option string
• winner(): Who won the poll?
• loser(): Least favoured option
• to_clean_dict(): Returns a python dictionary representation of the poll. Ignores any atributes that are null

Usage

Installation

• TODO: Create a PyPI package

Fetching a strawpoll

from strawpoll import StrawpollAPIReader

json_string = '{
  "title":"What movie should we watch again?",
  "options":  [
    "Sucker punch ",
    "Pirates of carribian ",
    "Prison logic","Witchhunter"
  ],
  "multi":false,
  "permissive": false,
  "captcha": true
}'

# Fetch a poll through its API id
poll_a = StrawpollAPIReader.from_apiv2(1)

# Fetch a poll through its URL
poll_b = StrawpollAPIReader.from_url("https://strawpoll.me/1")

# Fetch a poll from its JSON dump
poll_c = StrawpollAPIReader.from_json(json_string)

# These should be the same
if (poll_a == poll_b) and (poll_b == poll_c):
  print "Mirror images!"

# Yada yada normalize your data
print poll_a.normalize()

Posting a strawpoll

• TODO: APIWriter still in the pipes

Changelog

CHANGES.txt