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  • Stephen Boulet
    #1

    Trouble with script fetching site

    I'm trying to parse a url to set my hardware & system clock (linux).

    Perhaps the best way to do this would be to use the urllib2 module to
    convert a site to text, but since I haven't found that option yet, I did
    this instead (which sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, and when it doesn't
    seems to get hung up on line 4 -- os.popen oddity?):

    #/usr/bin/env python
    import os,sys

    url = "http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Ce ntral/d/-6"
    f = os.popen("lynx -dump " + url)
    lines = f.readlines()

    i = 0
    for line in lines:
    lines[i] = line.strip()
    i += 1

    for i in range(len(s)):
    if s[i].find("Right now") > -1:
    break

    time = s[1]
    day,month,year = s[2].split(',')
    month = month.strip()
    month = month.split(' ')
    month = ' '.join([month[0][0:3],month[1]])
    year = year.strip()

    result = ' '.join([day, month, time, "CDT", year])
    print "result is %s.\n" % result
    command = 'date -u -s "' + result + '";hwclock --systohc'
    print "Command is: \n\n%s.\n" % command

    f = os.popen(comman d)
    print f.read()

    # updatetime.py
    import: Unable to open file (os,sys).
    /usr/local/bin/updatetime.py: line 4: url: command not found
    /usr/local/bin/updatetime.py: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `('
    /usr/local/bin/updatetime.py: line 5: `f = os.popen("lynx -dump " + url)'

    I'm fetching a site


    --
    Stephen
    From here to there
    and there to here,
    funny things are everywhere. -- Dr Seuss

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    • Peter Hansen
      #2
      Re: Trouble with script fetching site

      Stephen Boulet wrote:[color=blue]
      >
      > I'm trying to parse a url to set my hardware & system clock (linux).[/color]

      I can't help with the problem at hand, but I also don't see the
      reason to do it. Why not just access an NTP server and grab the
      time the "proper" way? Using a web page is a roundabout way of
      doing it. There's a nice setclock.py script which Google can
      point you to which does the job much more easily.

      -Peter

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        • John J. Lee
          #3
          Re: Trouble with script fetching site

          Peter Hansen <peter@engcorp. com> writes:
          [color=blue]
          > Stephen Boulet wrote:[color=green]
          > >
          > > I'm trying to parse a url to set my hardware & system clock (linux).[/color]
          >
          > I can't help with the problem at hand, but I also don't see the
          > reason to do it. Why not just access an NTP server and grab the
          > time the "proper" way? Using a web page is a roundabout way of
          > doing it.[/color]

          Right.
          [color=blue]
          > There's a nice setclock.py script which Google can
          > point you to which does the job much more easily.[/color]

          On my system, the ntpdate command works nicely. I run it my PPP
          scripts.


          John

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            • Stephen Boulet
              #4
              Re: Trouble with script fetching site

              You guys are probably right. If you have a hammer ...

              John J. Lee wrote:[color=blue]
              > Peter Hansen <peter@engcorp. com> writes:
              >
              >[color=green]
              >>Stephen Boulet wrote:
              >>[color=darkred]
              >>>I'm trying to parse a url to set my hardware & system clock (linux).[/color]
              >>
              >>I can't help with the problem at hand, but I also don't see the
              >>reason to do it. Why not just access an NTP server and grab the
              >>time the "proper" way? Using a web page is a roundabout way of
              >>doing it.[/color]
              >
              >
              > Right.
              >
              >[color=green]
              >>There's a nice setclock.py script which Google can
              >>point you to which does the job much more easily.[/color]
              >
              >
              > On my system, the ntpdate command works nicely. I run it my PPP
              > scripts.
              >
              >
              > John[/color]

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                • Peter Hansen
                  #5
                  Re: Trouble with script fetching site

                  "John J. Lee" wrote:[color=blue]
                  >
                  > Peter Hansen <peter@engcorp. com> writes:
                  >[color=green]
                  > > Stephen Boulet wrote:[color=darkred]
                  > > >
                  > > > I'm trying to parse a url to set my hardware & system clock (linux).[/color]
                  > >
                  > > I can't help with the problem at hand, but I also don't see the
                  > > reason to do it. Why not just access an NTP server and grab the
                  > > time the "proper" way? Using a web page is a roundabout way of
                  > > doing it.[/color]
                  >
                  > Right.
                  >[color=green]
                  > > There's a nice setclock.py script which Google can
                  > > point you to which does the job much more easily.[/color]
                  >
                  > On my system, the ntpdate command works nicely. I run it my PPP
                  > scripts.[/color]

                  And once one knows it exists, one should probably prefer that
                  method. As I now do. <grin>

                  -Peter

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