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After reading Moving Planters Indoors for the Winter by Joseph Hall I decided to translate his script to Python.  Here's the result:

#!/usr/bin/python
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import httplib
import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.wrh.noaa.gov')
conn.request('GET','/forecast/xml/xml.php?duration=168&interval=6&lat=40.69651&lon=-112.091784')
response = conn.getresponse()

forecast_xml = ET.parse(response)
low_temp = 100
for child in forecast_xml.getiterator():
    if child.tag == 'temperature':
        temp = int(child.text)
        low_temp = temp if temp < low_temp else low_temp

if low_temp < 40:
    msg = MIMEText('Temps as low as %s coming up' % low_temp)
    msg['Subject'] = 'Cold Weather'
    msg['From'] = from_addr = 'username@gmail.com'
    msg['To'] = to_addr = '000000000@messaging.sprintpcs.com'

    s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
    s.starttls()
    s.login('username','password')
    s.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr, msg.as_string())
    s.quit()

I recently put up a code snippet on djangosnippets.org detailing how to do chained select boxes with Django and Mootools.

The basic idea is you have one select box that alters the contents of another select box based on what is chosen.  The idea is pretty simple, and it is pretty easy to implement also.

I've been using Mootools to do most of my javascripting lately.  I've really been impressed with that library.

I don't do this very often, but on occasion I find my self working on functions in a bit of code, but forget to branch the new changes.  Of course every time I do that I find I need to go back and do bug fixes on the "old" code.