David Holland wrote: > I am trying to make a report I do easier (ie via a program not manually). > Two questions :- > 1) Is it possible to download to your hard drive using python various > web pages ie if the pages have the structure > http://address/node=xxx&pagretree=&fromdid=nx&objectid=ny > <http://address/node=xxx&pagretree=&fromdid=nx&objectid=ny> > So you can download objectid=ny where ny=1,2,3,4 etc up to 20 for example
Sure, just use urllib.urlretrieve(), or, if you need to deal with things like proxies and authentication, urllib2. > 2) Is it possible to use python to put text into a table I don't mean > an sql table I mean a text table. There is a nice recipe in the online Python Cookbook for formatting tabular data. Unfortunately I can't access the cookbook right now; try searching for 'table' at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
