Joseph wrote:
> Hi,
> Excel uses web queries to read data (like financial/weather data) from
> web. How to do the same in python? Even pointers to such would be of
> help.
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/hwb
$ python
Python 2.5b2 (trunk:50713, Jul 19 2006, 16:04:09)
[GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special) (gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Started with C:/Steve/.pythonrc
>>> import urllib
>>> f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.com/";)
>>> data = f.read()
>>> print data
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859
-1"><title>Google</title><style><!--
body,td,a,p,.h{font-family:arial,sans-serif}
.h{font-size:20px}
.q{color:#00c}
--></style>
[...]
<a
href="/intl/en/ads/">Advertising Programmes</a> - <a
href=/services/>Business Solutions</a> - <a
href=/intl/en/about.html>About Google</a> - <a
href=http://www.google.com/ncr>Go to Google.com</a></font><p><font
size=-2>©2006 Google</font></p></center></body></html>
>>>
So that's an easy way to get hold of the raw data. Look at htmllib or
BeautifulSoup to parse it intot he structures you want.
regards
Steve
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