Add scoring utility function

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/current_king.py b/current_king.py
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+++ b/current_king.py
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+import urllib.request
+import urllib.error
+
+def get_king_data():
+    """Request data from localhost king endpoint and return response body as string."""
+    try:
+        with urllib.request.urlopen("http://localhost:8080/v1/king") as response:
+            return response.read().decode('utf-8')
+    except urllib.error.URLError as e:
+        raise Exception(f"Failed to fetch king data: {e}")
+
+print(get_king_data())