Early implementation

setup.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import setuptools
 
 setup_params = dict(
 	name='wolframalpha',
+	description="Wolfram|Alpha 2.0 API client",
 	use_hg_version=True,
 	author="Jason R. Coombs",
 	author_email="jaraco@jaraco.com",

wolframalpha/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import urllib
+import urllib2
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree
+
+class Result(object):
+    def __init__(self, stream):
+        self.tree = etree.parse(stream)
+
+class Client(object):
+    """
+    Wolfram|Alpha v2.0 client
+    """
+    def __init__(self, app_id):
+        self.app_id = app_id
+
+    def query(self, query):
+        """
+        Query Wolfram|Alpha with query using the v2.0 API
+        """
+        query = urllib.urlencode(dict(
+            input=query,
+            appid=self.app_id,
+        ))
+        url = 'http://api.wolframalpha.com/v2/query?' + query
+        resp = urllib2.urlopen(url)
+        assert resp.headers['Content-Type'] == 'application/xml'
+        return Result(resp)