On 06Jul2015 15:44, Crusier <crus...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All,I have used the urllib.request and download some of the information from a site. I am currently using Python 3.4. My program is as follows: import urllib.request response = urllib.request.urlopen(' http://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/ddp/Contract_Details.asp?PId=175') saveFile = open('HKEX.txt','w') saveFile.write(str(response.read())) saveFile.close() And the result is as follows: d align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td
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Please let me know how to deal with this string. I hope I could put onto a table first. Eventually, I am hoping that I can able to put all this database. I need some guidance of which area of coding I should look into.
Look into the BeautifulSoup library, which will parse HTML. That will let you locate the TABLE element and extract the content by walking the rows (TR) and cells (TD).
Start here: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ You can install bs4 using pip, or in other ways: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#installing-beautiful-soup Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> 30 years ago, I made some outrageous promises about AI. I didn't deliver. Neither did you. This is all your fault. - Marvin Minsky, IJCAI'91 (summary) _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
