clouds few clouds day after tomorrowclear sky is clear (the weather is one of the reasons like living in san francisco!ideas for similar programs accessing weather data can form the basis for many types of programs you can create similar programs to do the followingcollect weather forecasts for several campsites or hiking trails to see which one will have the best weather schedule program to regularly check the weather and send you frost alert if you need to move your plants indoors covers schedulingand explains how to send email pull weather data from multiple sites to show all at onceor calculate and show the average of the multiple weather predictions summary csv and json are common plaintext formats for storing data they are easy for programs to parse while still being human readableso they are often used for simple spreadsheets or web app data the csv and json modules greatly simplify the process of reading and writing to csv and json files the last few have taught you how to use python to parse information from wide variety of file formats one common task is taking data from variety of formats and parsing it for the particular information you need these tasks are often specific to the point that commercial software is not optimally helpful by writing your own scriptsyou can make the computer handle large amounts of data presented in these formats in you'll break away from data formats and learn how to make your programs communicate with you by sending emails and text messages practice questions what are some features excel spreadsheets have that csv spreadsheets don'twhat do you pass to csv reader(and csv writer(to create reader and writer objectswhat modes do file objects for reader and writer objects need to be opened inworking with csv files and json data