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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.

(Michael) wrote in
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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.
>

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;

>>> import urllib
>>> source = urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.com").readlines()
>>> for line in source:
>>> if line.find("logo.gif") > -1:
>>> print "Found google logo"

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.

In article < >, Michael wrote:
> 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.


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

http://www.python.org/doc/current/li...r-example.html

for a tiny example.

PterK

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