On Aug 20, 1:33 am, Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > 1). Data Munging (text processing) - instead of Perl
Check out the re module (regexes) in the standard library, and the pyparsing third party library: http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/ for more complex stuff. > 2). Automating my build process You'll want to look into the os, sys and subprocess modules. The PMOTW this week was subprocess: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/pymotw_subprocess_1.html. A few weeks back it covered os: http://blog.doughellmann.com/2007/05/pymotw-os.html. In fact one of Doug Hellmann's previous articles on the getopt module may also be useful if you want your build scripts to be controlled by command line args: http://blog.doughellmann.com/2007/08/pymotw-getopt.html (Though I prefer optparse personally). > 3). (Possibly) some web data retrieval jobs urllib, urllib2 and cookielib in the standard library should do most of what you want, perhaps with the addition of beautiful soup if you need to scrape the pages for data: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ HTH. -- Ant... http://antroy.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list