feat: add wind direction to output.

Author: yanliutafewa

projects/API Based Weather Report/API Based Weather Report.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import requests
 from datetime import datetime
+from Util_Functions import wind_degree_to_direction
 
 
 # Function to fetch weather data from OpenWeatherMap API
@@ -68,6 +69,12 @@ def write_to_file(location, weather_data):
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                 )
 
+            # Writing wind direction information to the file
+            if "wind" in weather_data and "deg" in weather_data["wind"]:
+                f.write(
+                    "\tCurrent wind direction   : " +
+                    wind_degree_to_direction(weather_data["wind"]["deg"]) + " \n")
+
         # Printing confirmation message after writing to file
         print("Weather information written to weatherinfo.txt")
 
@@ -108,6 +115,7 @@ def main():
         print("Current weather desc  : " + weather_data["weather"][0]["description"])
         print("Current Humidity      :", weather_data["main"]["humidity"], "%")
         print("Current wind speed    :", weather_data["wind"]["speed"], "kmph")
+        print("Current wind direction:", wind_degree_to_direction(weather_data["wind"]["deg"]))
     else:
         # Printing error message if weather data fetching fails
         print("Failed to fetch weather data. Please check your input and try again.")

projects/API Based Weather Report/Util_Functions.py

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+def wind_degree_to_direction(str_wind_degree):
+    """
+    Convert wind degree to wind direction.
+
+    :param str_wind_degree: str, Wind degree from API (0 to 360)
+    :return: Wind direction as a string (e.g., N, NE, E, etc.)
+    """
+    # convert wind degree from str to int.
+    try:
+        wind_degree = int(str_wind_degree)
+    except ValueError:
+        return "API Wind Degree data error!"
+
+    directions = [
+        "N", "NNE", "NE", "ENE", "E", "ESE", "SE", "SSE",
+        "S", "SSW", "SW", "WSW", "W", "WNW", "NW", "NNW"
+    ]
+    index = int((wind_degree + 11.25) // 22.5) % 16
+    return directions[index]