@@ -116,13 +116,33 @@ Official API documentation at http://api.votesmart.org/docs/Candidates.html All six methods return a list containing one or more Candidate objects. -Example of fetching all candidates for the MN Senate race: +Example of fetching all candidates for the NJ Gubernatorial race: - >>> for candidate in votesmart.candidates.getByOfficeState(6, 'MN'): + >>> for candidate in votesmart.candidates.getByOfficeState(3, 'NJ'): ... print candidate - Norm Coleman - Al Franken - + Christopher Christie + Christopher Christie + Jon Corzine + Jon Corzine + Jason Cullen + Christopher Daggett + Kenneth Kaplan + Joshua Leinsdorf + Brian Levine + Alvin Lindsay + David Meiswinkle + Richard Merkt + Gregory Pason + Kostas Petris + Gary Steele + Gary Stein + +You will notice that several candidates appear twice, this is due to an +unfortunate issue with the Vote Smart API where candidates with multiple +parties, or election statuses are duplicated. Be careful when consuming +candidate data to dedupe using the fields you find useful. + +(See http://github.com/sunlightlabs/python-votesmart/issues/closed/#issue/1) ----------------- committee methods @@ -180,19 +200,22 @@ Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties: >>> for member in votesmart.committee.getCommitteeMembers(4015): ... print member Representative Jerrold Nadler - Representative Trent Franks + Representative James Sensenbrenner + Representative Tammy Baldwin Representative Stephen Cohen Representative John Conyers - Representative Artur Davis - Representative Keith Ellison + Representative William Delahunt + Representative Trent Franks + Representative Louie Gohmert Representative Darrell Issa Representative James Jordan Representative Steve King - Representative Mike Pence + Representative Tom Rooney Representative Robert Scott - Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz + Representative Brad Sherman Representative Melvin Watt + ---------------- district methods ---------------- README.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from distutils.core import setup long_description = open('README.rst').read() setup(name="python-votesmart", - version="0.2.2", + version="0.3.0", py_modules=["votesmart"], description="Libraries for interacting with the Project Vote Smart API", author="James Turk <jturk@sunlightfoundation.com>", setup.py 299a55fe4c4a6c019fe1b29c55cdafcdf06727de James Turk james.p.turk@gmail.com http://github.com/sunlightlabs/python-votesmart/commit/adc61fc68b85a702b6bc77e7954caca00b76e5e1 adc61fc68b85a702b6bc77e7954caca00b76e5e1

2009-08-17T08:32:30-07:00

fix tests again, bump version to 0.3 2b6da11679d898715e2e2152a81679253c52d2f6 James Turk james.p.turk@gmail.com