from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from urllib2 import urlopen
import re

SOURCE = 'http://code.google.com/p/macvim/downloads/list?%s&%s' % (
    'can=1',  # show all files
    'colspec=Filename+DownloadCount')  # we only need name and download count

NAMES_ATTRIBS = {'class' : re.compile(r'col_0$') }
COUNTS_ATTRIBS = {'class' : re.compile(r'col_1$') }

def fetchNewColumn():
  soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen(SOURCE))
  resultstable = soup.find('table', id='resultstable')
  names = [str(x.a.string) for x in resultstable.findAll('td', NAMES_ATTRIBS)]
  counts = [int(x.a.string) for x in resultstable.findAll('td', COUNTS_ATTRIBS)]
  return dict(zip(names, counts))