On Sep 19, 7:40 am, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote: > Chuck wrote: > > On Sep 12, 3:37 pm, Chuck <galois...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Sep 11, 9:54 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > > >>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Chuck <galois...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>>> Does anyone know how I should read/download the mp3 file, and how I > >>>> should write/save it so that I can play it on a media player such as > >>>> Windoze media player? Excuse my ignorance, but I am a complete noob > >>>> at this. I downloaded the mp3, and I got a ton of hex, I think, but > >>>> it could've been unicode. > > >>> urllib.urlretrieve():http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html#urllib.urlretrieve > > >>> Cheers, > >>> Chris > > >> Thanks Chris! I will play around with this. > > > I am using Python 3.1, but I can't figure out why I can't use > > xml.dom.minidom. Here is my code: > > > from xml.dom.minidom import parse, parseString > > url =http://minnesota.publicradio.org/tools/podcasts/ > > grammar_grater.xml' #just for test purposes > > > doc =arse(url) #I have also tried parseString(url), not to mention > > a million other methods from xml.Etree, xml.sax etc... all to no > > avail > > > What the heck am I doing wrong? How can I get this xml file and use > > the toprettyxml() method. Or something, so I can parse it. I don't > > have any books and the documentation for Python kind of sucks. I am a > > complete noob to Python and internet programming. (I'm sure that is > > obvious :) ) > > > Thanks! > > > Charlie > > Wrong? You didn't specify your OS environment, you didn't show the > error message (and traceback), you posted an apparently unrelated > question in the same thread (there's no XML inside a mp3 file). > > xml.dom.minidom.parse() takes a filename or a 'file' object as its first > argument. You gave it a URL, so it complained. You can fix that either > by using urllib.urlopen() or by separately copying the data to a local > file and using its filename here. > > In general, I'd recommend against testing new code live against the > internet, since errors can occur from the vagaries of the internet as > well as from bugs in your code. Sometimes it's hard to tell the > difference when the symptoms change each time you run. > > So I'd download the xml data that you want to test with to a local file, > and test out your parsing logic against that copy. In fact, first > testing will probably be against a simplified version of that copy. > > How do you download the file? Well, if you're using Firefox, you can > browse to that page, and do View->Source. Then copy/paste that text > into a text editor, and save it locally. Something similar probably > works in other browsers, maybe even IE. > > Or you can use urlretrieve, as suggested earlier in this thread. But > I'd make that a separate script, so that you can separate the bugs in > downloading from the bugs in parsing. After everything mostly works, > you can think about combining them. > > DaveA
Oh yeah! I am using Windows XP. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
