A few tweaks to plugins: weather.py now uses web.query for YQL, spellcheck.py has some renamed variables and uses new string formatting, choose.py has a nicer fail message.

plugins/choose.py

@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ def choose(inp):
     if len(c) == 1:
         c = re.findall(r'(\S+)', inp)
         if len(c) == 1:
-            return 'the decision is up to you'
+            return 'The decision is up to you!'
 
     return random.choice(c).strip()

plugins/spellcheck.py

@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
-import re
 import enchant
 from util import hook
 
 locale = "en_US"
 
 
-@hook.command("spellcheck")
+@hook.command
 def spell(inp):
     "spell <word> -- Check spelling of <word>."
 
@@ -13,16 +12,16 @@ def spell(inp):
         return "This command only supports one word at a time."
 
     if not enchant.dict_exists(locale):
-        return "Could not find dictionary: %s" % locale
+        return "Could not find dictionary: {}".format(locale)
 
-    dict = enchant.Dict(locale)
-    is_correct = dict.check(inp)
-    suggestions = dict.suggest(inp)
+    dictionary = enchant.Dict(locale)
+    is_correct = dictionary.check(inp)
+    suggestions = dictionary.suggest(inp)
     s_string = ', '.join(suggestions[:10])
 
     if is_correct:
-        return '"%s" appears to be \x02valid\x02! ' \
-               '(suggestions: %s)' % (inp, s_string)
+        return '"{}" appears to be \x02valid\x02! ' \
+               '(suggestions: {})'.format(inp, s_string)
     else:
-        return '"%s" appears to be \x02invalid\x02! ' \
-               '(suggestions: %s)' % (inp, s_string)
+        return '"{}" appears to be \x02invalid\x02! ' \
+               '(suggestions: {})'.format(inp, s_string)

plugins/weather.py

@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
-from util import hook
-import yql as YQL
+from util import hook, web
 
 
 def get_weather(location):
     """uses the yahoo weather API to get weather information for a location"""
 
-    yql = YQL.Public()
-    enviroment = "http://datatables.org/alltables.env"
     query = "SELECT * FROM weather.bylocation WHERE location=@location LIMIT 1"
-    data = yql.execute(query, {"location": location}, env=enviroment).one()
+    result = web.query(query, {"location": location})
 
-    data = data["rss"]["channel"]
+    data = result.rows[0]["rss"]["channel"]
 
     # wind conversions
     data['wind']['chill_c'] = int(round((int(data['wind']['chill']) - 32) / 1.8, 0))