Okay, so I am having issues figuring anything out about this and have
read the "missing manual" about it so please don't send me that link
again. To put it simply I want to be able to input a word and get the
definition from dictionary.com. Now I found a work-around for
searching for the word, I just make it in the actual address. For
example I want to search for cheese, I can just do a:
urllib2.urlopen("http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cheese";)
However, the actual definition is in javascript on the page. I used
firebug to see it, and the first def, looks like this:
<table class="luna-Ent">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="dn" valign="top">1.</td>
<td valign="top">the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared
in many ways as a food. </td>
the problem being that if I use code like this to get the html of that
page in python:
response = urllib2.urlopen("the webiste....")
html = response.read()
print html
I get the html source of the page, but no table with my definitions.
So what can I do? Also, is there a book or a better tutorial or
explanation of this urllib2, and urllib? If so, PLEASE let me know
about it; I will be eternally grateful.
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