On Jun 14, 12:28 am, buford.lum...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, I'm new to Python. Would someone be able to write me and/or to show me > how to write a simple program that: > > 1-follows a hyperlink from MS Excel to the internet (one of many links like > this,http://www.zipdatamaps.com/76180, for e.g.) and then, > > 2-copies some data (a population number, e.g. 54195) and then, > > 3-pastes that data back into the same MS Excel spreadsheet, into the adjacent > cell. > > ... and that’s it... row after row of hyperlinks all in one column... > 1> will probably be best done inside excel. Simple export as Dave suggests or something more programmer-ish like an excel macro to export a specific column of links as a text-file
2> I am not clear about -- looked at the page and there were a number of hits for 'population' If the format is fixed -- same site different cities -- use beautiful soup (in python) with urls from 1> > Please, please help me my wrist is starting to hurt a lot. You would have my > greatest appreciation for your help! > > thank you, Buford -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
