biiiig ooops :-)
regex_geocode = \
re.compile(r"""<geometry>[\W]*?<location>[\W]*?<lat>(?P<la>[
^<]*)</lat>[\W]*?<lng>(?P<lo>[^<]*)</lng>[\W]*?</location>""")
def geocode(address):
try:
a = urllib.quote(address)
txt = fetch('http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?
sensor=false&address=%s'
% a)
item = regex_geocode.search(txt)
(la, lo) = (float(item.group('la')), float(item.group('lo')))
return (la, lo)
except:
return (0.0, 0.0)
