some one wrote: > Thanks Diez, I found some docs and examples on urllib2. Now how do i > search the string I get from urllib2, lets say I put it in "myURL", How > do I search for only Numbers and ".'s" in the "#.#.#.#" pattern. That > is all I am interested in with all the data retrieved. Just the IP > Address from amongst a bunch of data that I have no use of currently. > > I would I write a pattern matching function to extract only the IP > address from "myURL"?
Pattern-matching can be done using regular expressions, they are available in the module "re". Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
