def getPlayer(mlb_id):
db.execute("SELECT * FROM players WHERE mlb_id = ?", (mlb_id,))
row = db.fetchone()
if row is None:
# Let's go find this player! First we need to find out what team they're on, and what that team's last game_id was
try:
file = urllib2.urlopen("http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2012/batters/%s.xml" % mlb_id).read()
except urllib2.HTTPError:
return False
dom = minidom.parseString(file)
game_id = dom.getElementsByTagName("batting")[0].getAttribute("game_id")
year, month, day, meh = game_id.split("/")
game_id = game_id.replace("-", "_").replace("/", "_")
try:
file = urllib2.urlopen(
"http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_%s/month_%s/day_%s/gid_%s/batters/%s.xml"
% (year, month, day, game_id, mlb_id)
).read()
except urllib2.HTTPError:
return False
player = minidom.parseString(file).getElementsByTagName("Player")[0]
db.execute(
"INSERT OR IGNORE INTO players (mlb_id, first, last, num, team) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)",
(
mlb_id,
player.getAttribute("first_name"),
player.getAttribute("last_name"),
player.getAttribute("jersey_number"),
getTeam(player.getAttribute("team")).code,
),
)
connection.commit()
return getPlayer(mlb_id)
return Player(*row)
def getTeam(name):
if isinstance(name, Team):
_localCache[name.code] = name
return name
if name in _localCache:
return _localCache[name]
db.execute("SELECT * FROM teams WHERE code = ?", (name,))
row = db.fetchone()
if row is not None:
_localCache[row["code"]] = Team(*row)
return _localCache[row["code"]]
name = name.lower()
for code in team_matching:
if name in team_matching[code]:
return getTeam(code)
return None
