web_programming.covid_stats_via_xpath

This script demonstrates fetching simple COVID-19 statistics from the Worldometers archive site using lxml. lxml is chosen over BeautifulSoup for its speed and convenience in Python web projects (such as Django or Flask).

Attributes

fmt

Classes

CovidData

Functions

covid_stats(→ CovidData)

Module Contents

class web_programming.covid_stats_via_xpath.CovidData

Bases: NamedTuple

cases: str

deaths: str

recovered: str

web_programming.covid_stats_via_xpath.covid_stats(url: str = 'https://web.archive.org/web/20250825095350/https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/') → CovidData

web_programming.covid_stats_via_xpath.fmt = Multiline-String

Show Value

"""Total COVID-19 cases in the world: {}
Total deaths due to COVID-19 in the world: {}
Total COVID-19 patients recovered in the world: {}"""