englishkevin...@gmail.com wrote: > I know the title doesn't make much sense, but I didnt know how to explain my > problem. > > Anywho, I've opened a page's source in URLLIB > starturlsource = starturlopen.read() > string.find(starturlsource, '<a href="/profile.php?id=') > And I used string.find to find a specific area in the page's source. > I want to store what comes after ?id= in a variable. > Can someone help me with this?
Python 3.3.0 (default, Mar 7 2013, 00:24:38) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import string >>> help(string.find) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'find' There is no find function in the string module [1]. But assuming starturlsource is a str, you could do: pattern = '<a href="/profile.php?id=' index = starturlsource.find( pattern ) index will then be -1 if there's no match, or have a non-negative value if a match is found. In the latter case, you can extract the next 17 characters with newstr = starturlsource[index+len(pattern):index+len(pattern)+17] You are of course making several assumptions about the web page, which are perfectly reasonable since it's a page under your control. Or is it? [1] Assuming Python 3.3 since you omitted stating the version you're using. But even in Python 2.7, using the string.find function is deprecated in favor of the str method. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
