Weather Forecast App Template

This is the template of Weather Forecast App. You can train your Python 3 developer skills by adding new functionalities. The list of ideas can be found below.

Screenshots

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

You will need:

• Python 3 with Tk
• Pillow library

Installing

When using PyCharm environment follow the instructions and install Pillow library.

You can also use pip with virtualenv:

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Deployment

Run this app with Python 3:

python3 main.py

Ideas for further development

• Unittest your app (use TDD with unittest or pytest, mock, tox).
• Use web service to receive list of supported cities and weather data (eg. https://openweathermap.org/).
• Remember to catch errors and notify user about them in a nice way.
• Use local storage to cache the data (eg. text file, database like SQLite).
• Use threads to download weather forecast data and prevert GUI freezing.
• Add forecast for next days.
• Add tray icon.
• Notify user about bad weather conditions (eg. via Facebook, Twitter, SMS or simple desktop notification).
• Prepare an installer for your app with Distutils (setup.py).
• Prepare standalone version for Windows users (eg. py2exe, PyInstaller).

Authors

• Adam Chyła - Initial work - chyla.org

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

• Weather Icons by Alex M. - License: Public Domain