---Reply to mail from Erich Neuwirth about Auto-starting a document in the viewer
> Currently, he has the QOTD on the opening screen, and i is a JPG picture.
> What tools would be necessary to convert this into a pdb on the server?
Like this:
#!/usr/bin/python2.2
"""
qotd.py
Builds a local HTML page from www.qotd.org
Copyright (C) 2004, Christopher R. Hawks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Distributable under the GNU General Public License Version 2 or newer.
"""
import sys
import os
import re
import urllib
import string
verbose = 1
quote_pattern = re.compile("<b>A randomly.*?<a href", re.MULTILINE | re.IGNORECASE |
re.DOTALL)
site = "http://www.qotd.org";
if verbose:
print "Fetching Page %s" %site
path = urllib.URLopener()
conn = path.open(site)
page = conn.read()
conn.close()
conn = path.open(site + "/top.gif")
image = conn.read()
conn.close()
myfile = open("top.gif", 'w')
myfile.write(image)
myfile.close()
name = quote_pattern.search(page)
quote = name.group()
quote = quote[:-7]
myfile = open("qotd.html", 'w')
myfile.write("<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Quote of the Day</TITLE></HEAD>\n")
myfile.write("<H1>Quote of the Day.</H1>\n")
myfile.write("<IMG SRC=\"top.gif\"><BR>\n")
myfile.write(quote)
myfile.write("\n</HTML>\n")
myfile.close()
Works for me.
---End reply
Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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