I found Python much easier to use since everything is built right into
the language. I am also moving my applications to Python and Dabo and I
was amazed at how quickly I was able to replace all of the web stuff
with Python. I read XML files from URL and parse them into csv files
which I load into VFP tables. I also send email notifications using
SMTP which is also very easy to do in Python.
So rather than use a mix of VFP and wwIPStuff my web/xml/email module is
written in Python and is separate from my VFP app. The text processing
in Python is significantly faster than the VFP code it replaces, too.
A really cool thing is that when I call it using the run command I use a
wxPython (ie Dabo) window with a status bar (thermometer) while it is
running and you can't tell that it is not part of the VFP application.
Try it, you'll like it.
Jeff
Jeff Johnson
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Steve Ellenoff wrote:
> Thanks for sharing that Jeff. I'm curious why you decided to switch?
> I've been using wwipstuff for years and have been happy with it. Is
> it more reliable, more robust, or you just wanted a change?
>
> At 06:45 PM 1/10/2008, you wrote:
>> Grigore: Just in case you might be interested in looking at Python, I
>> used to use wwIPStuff but have recently replaced all of my http and xml
>> stuff with Python. Here is an example that will read www.leafe.com
>>
>> # indentation and case is important
>> import httplib
>>
>> def saveResponse(txt):
>> filePath = 'http.txt'
>> file = open(filePath, 'w')
>> file.writelines(txt)
>>
>> httpServ = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.leafe.com', 80)
>> httpServ.connect()
>>
>> # You can replace the '/' with a uid and password string if required in
>> # fact that is required on my usage.
>> httpServ.request('GET', '/')
>>
>> response = httpServ.getresponse()
>> if response.status == httplib.OK:
>> saveResponse(response.read())
>>
>>
>> I save it as a text file get_http.py and call it from the FoxPro run
>> command:
>>
>> ! /N c:\python25\pythonw.exe get_http.py
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> Jeff Johnson
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> SanDC, Inc.
>> 623-582-0323
>> Fax 623-869-0675
>>
>> Grigore Dolghin wrote:
>>> Hi. I am stuck trying to read the content of a webpage. I
>> navigate to that page, and try to extract the HTML in a local
>> variable (I need to do some parsing on the page's text).
>>> However, it seems that oIe.Document.Body.InnerHTML returns
>> something else than I see if I right click the page and choose
>> "View page source".
>>> Any ideas how to read the html in a local var?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>
>>
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