Python is a great tool for retrieving and processing data. For instance, retrieving the sunset time from the web using the JSON Weather Underground API would only require a few lines of code: import urllib, json
import datetime
url = "http://api.wunderground.com/api/<your api code>/geolookup/conditions/astronomy/q/CA/fresno.json"
now = datetime.datetime.now()
response = urllib.urlopen(url);
data = json.loads(response.read())
sunSetTime = datetime.datetime(now.year, now.month, now.day, int(data['sun_phase']['sunset']['hour']), int(data['sun_phase']['sunset']['minute']), 00)
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