import urllib2 import re import time def LinuxDistros(): req = urllib2.Request("http://lwn.net/Distributions/") f = urllib2.urlopen(req) t = f.read() f.close() rc = re.compile('
  • (.*)
    ') return rc.findall(t) def DistroRank(nix): enc = "http://search.yahoo.com/search?p="+urllib2.quote('"'+nix+'" "linux distribution"') req = urllib2.Request(enc) req.add_header('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 BAVM/1.0.0') f = urllib2.urlopen(req) t = f.read() f.close() rc = re.compile('1 - 10 of (.*) for ') rez = rc.search(t) if rez: return int(rez.groups()[0].replace(',','')) else: return 0 def TopDistros(): print 'Fetching ranks from search engine...' distros = LinuxDistros() res = [] for d in distros: res.append((DistroRank(d),d)) print 'Fetched', len(res),'distro of',len(distros) time.sleep(2) res = sorted(res,reverse=True)[:20] total = sum(r for r,d in res) res = [(round(100.*r/total,2), d) for r,d in res] print '-'*20 print 'Distro Rating(%)' print '-'*20 for r,d in res: print d,r TopDistros()