def timezone_by_lat_lng(cls, lat_lng):
"""a method to get the timezone based on latitude longitude pair"""
config = h.parse_config_file()
request_url = config["api_timezone_url"]
request_user = config["geonames_user"]
params = {"lat": lat_lng[0], "lng": lat_lng[1], "username": request_user}
request = url.Request(h.external_url(request_url, params=params))
response = url.urlopen(request)
timezone_json = response.read()
timezone = json.loads(timezone_json)["timezoneId"]
return timezone
def test_external_url(self):
EXTERNAL_URL = 'http://www.google.com'
self.assertEquals(h.external_url(EXTERNAL_URL), '%s?' % EXTERNAL_URL)
self.assertEquals(h.external_url(EXTERNAL_URL, params={'test1':True, 'test2':1}), '%s?test1=True&test2=1' % EXTERNAL_URL)
