* helper script for fetching qualifying data

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diff --git a/dumps/chicane-f1.py b/dumps/chicane-f1.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import urllib
+import urllib2
+import urlparse
+
+from lxml import html
+
+for year in range(1954,2015):
+    url = 'http://chicanef1.com/calendar.pl?' + urllib.urlencode({'year':year,'nc':0})
+    contents = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
+    tree = html.fromstring(contents)
+    links = tree.xpath('//table[@cellpadding=6]//tr/td[1]//a')
+    for link in links:
+        url = urlparse.urlparse(link.attrib['href'])
+        url = url._replace(path='race.pl')
+        query = dict(urlparse.parse_qsl(url.query))
+        for type in ['qual', 'preq']:
+            query['type'] = type
+            url = url._replace(query=urllib.urlencode(query))
+            print urlparse.urljoin('http://chicanef1.com', urlparse.urlunparse(url))