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Added new API source using the giantbomb.com API #3

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@zerok zerok commented Mar 2, 2013

This one uses the Giantbomb.com API to fetch platform release dates and original prices and puts them into perspective with Federal Reserve CPI data (to calculate USD inflation), matplotlib (to generate to generate an output graph) and tablib (to generate a CSV file).

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I love this idea. So. Great.

import requests
import logging
import tablib
import urllib2
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why are you electing to use urllib2 for one object (line 62) while you could use requests?

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Requests supports gzipped content by default with makes chunked downloading a bit of a mess. But an updated version will now use requests for consistency sake :-)

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zerok commented Mar 3, 2013

Now with 50% more hand-holding :-)

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These comments are great!!

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Horst Gutmann notifications@github.comwrote:

Now with 50% more hand-holding :-)


Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//pull/3#issuecomment-14349296
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Okay - for your review, let me know your thoughts on how the tutorial reads: https://gist.github.com/econchick/29a6a892a54c743f3268

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Manually merged! Still working on editing/fine-tuning the actual tutorial part. :)

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