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('<li> <b><a href.*>(.*)</a></b><br>')
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('<span id="infotext">1 - 10 of (.*) for <strong>')
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()
