MATATA EMMANUEL wrote: > Alan, > > Man! I was thinking that it was simple. This is a little bit hard but > will try to make sense of it as I can.
How would you fetch the shapefile with your browser? Is there a url to download the file? It's pretty simple to fetch a web page or other resource from a URL and save it to a local file. urllib.urlretrieve() will do it. If you have to authenticate (login) to the web site it gets a little more complex. urllib2 is similar to urllib but it has more options and supports authentication. There is a tutorial for urllib2 here: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml Kent > > Thank you for your assistance. I'm glad you're up there to assist. > > Matt > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From: /"Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ > To: /"MATATA EMMANUEL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ > CC: /<tutor@python.org>/ > Subject: /Re: [Tutor] Please help!!/ > Date: /Sat, 20 May 2006 17:58:20 +0100/ > >[CCing back to list] > > > >>I know HTML even if I haven't used it for sometimes. I Also know > >>couple other programming languages (Visual basic, some C++). > >>I just taken a Python course of writting Python scripts for ArcGIS > >>so that if you sent me a script, I will be able to understand it. > > > >OK, now we know the background we know where to pitch the reply. > >I don't have a script that will do exactly what you want but someone > >else posted a snippet showing how to use urllib. > > > >If you need to parse the html that you read from urllib then you > >might > >find BeautifulSoup worth a look. > > > >http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ > > > >It makes extracting elements from html fairly painless. > > > >But if its easy to find a simple search of the string for the img > >tag > >may suffice. > > > >HTH, > > > >Alan Gauld > >Author of the Learn to Program web site > >http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld > > > >> > >> From: "Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: "MATATA EMMANUEL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<Tutor@python.org> > >> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Please help!! > >> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 13:15:41 +0100 > >> >>I'm tasked to write a Paython script which is supposed to hit a > >>web >>site and download a shapefile from that web site. > >> > > >> >The urllib module should do that for you but... > >> > > >> >>I don't have any clue and would like your help. > >> > > >> >What do you know? > >> >Do you understand HTML? and specifically how to create and read > >>img >tags? > >> > > >> >Do you know any Python? Do you know any other programming > >>language? > >> > > >> >>I use 9.x if this matter. > >> > > >> >Version 9.x of what? > >> >Operating System - on a Mac perhaps? > >> >If so it shouldn't matter since Python's urllib works OK on the > >> >older versions. > >> > > >> >We really need a liittle more background to help further. > >> > > >> >HTH, > >> > > >> >Alan G. > >> > > >> > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
