Parsing

Re: Parsing

whatsupg21@hotm ail.com (Michael) wrote in
news:e5fb8973.0 307100938.13fce [email protected] gle.com:
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> I have been assigned a project to parse a webpage for data using
> Python. I have finished only basic tutorials. Any suggestions as to
> where I should go from here? Thanks in advance.
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Parsing? What are you looking for?
Do you have to download the page as well?

If it's a fairly simple thing to find, you could use something like;
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>>> import urllib
>>> source = urllib.urlopen( "http://www.google.com" ).readlines()
>>> for line in source:
>>> if line.find("logo .gif") > -1:
>>> print "Found google logo"[/color][/color][/color]

If the data to find is more complicated, or you need to parse the HTML as
well, you should look at more string methods, maybe regular expressions
(import re)...

Cheers,
Simon.

Re: Parsing

In article <e5fb8973.03071 00938.13fcea56@ posting.google. com>, Michael wrote:[color=blue]
> I have been assigned a project to parse a webpage for data using
> Python. I have finished only basic tutorials. Any suggestions as to
> where I should go from here? Thanks in advance.[/color]


Try to be a little more specific. Parse for what? Links? Images? Tags?

Anyway. A good start might be the HTMLParser that comes with the
batteries since 2.2 if I remember correctly. See



for a tiny example.

PterK

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