Unlike adding fixture data in the form of xml_data files, I want to get the load the data from an API location. How should I do that? This is what I am thinking of (please read the code comments too):

class Bank(osv.Model):

"""This class defines a Bank Object"""

_name = 'obp.bank'
_description = 'OBP Bank'
_order = 'name'

_columns = {
    'full_name' : fields.char('Bank name'),
    'logo' : fields.char('Bank Logo'),
    'website' : fields.char('Bank Website'),
    'id' : fields.char('Bank ID'),
    'short_name' : fields.char('Bank Short Name'),

def get_bank_data(): # What should I write here instead?? __init__.py?
    # The code here gets the data from the API into a python dictionary
    # from which I want to load it into this Bank Database table.

What will be the best way to do this?