On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Comment Holder <commenthol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Many thanks Joel, > > You are right to some extent. I come from Finance background, but I am very > familiar with what could be referred to as non-native languages such as > Matlab, VBA,.. actually, I have developed couple of complete programs. > > I have asked this question, because I am a little worried about the structure > of this particular page, as there are no specific defined classes. > > I know how powerful Python is, but I wonder if it could do the job with this > particular page. > > Again, many thanks Joel, I appreciate your guidance. > All Best// > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Your biggest hurdle will be to get proficient with python. Give yourself a weekend with a good tutorial. You won't be very skilled, but you will get the gist of things. Also, google Beautiful Soup. You need the latest version. Its v4 I think. They have a GREAT tutorial. Spend a few hours with it and you will see your way to get the data you want from your web pages. Since you gave a sample web page, I am guessing that you need to log in to the site for 'real data'. For that, you need to really understand stuff that you might not. At any rate, study the Requests Module documentation. Python comes with urllib, and urllib2 that cover the same ground, but Requests is a lot simpler to understand -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
