| 47 | Who’s in Space? |
Did you know you can find out exactly who’s in space right now? The Open Notify API provides that information. Visit http://api.open-notify.org/astros.json to see not only how many people are currently in space but also their names and which spacecraft they’re on.
Create a program that pulls in this data and displays the information from this API in a tabular format.
Example Output
| | There are 3 people in space right now: |
| | |
| | Name | Craft |
| | --------------------|------ |
| | Gennady Padalka | ISS |
| | Mikhail Kornienko | ISS |
| | Scott Kelly | ISS |
Constraint
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Read the data directly from the API and parse the results each time the program is run. Don’t download the data as text and read it in.
Challenges
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Ensure that the width of the header is as long as the longest value in the column.
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Don’t repeat the name of the craft—group all people by craft.
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Can you reliably sort the results alphabetically by last name? Be careful—some people have spaces in their name, like “Mary Sue Van Pelt.”