Brendan Fay wrote: > I figured it out. Is there any way to delete your own posts? > > Brendan Fay wrote: >> Dear Someone: >> >> I have written a script that accesses the googleAPI through >> pygoogle and saves each of the ten documents as a .txt file by using a >> specific function for each respective file type (.doc, .pdf, .html) to >> convert it to such. Everything works fine, except that I am trying to >> make it search and return another result in the event that a file type >> other than .doc, .pdf, .html, or .txt comes up. Python is new to me >> and I'm not sure why my method doesn't work. I'd really appreciate any >> advice; here is the relevant code: >> >> def searchhelper(words, start=0, max=10): >> data = google.doGoogleSearch(words) >> objlist = data.results >> urllist = map((lambda x: x.URL), objlist) >> return urllist >> >> >> def searchhelper2(initwords, urls, counter): >> for url in urls: >> if findinlink(url, 'pdf'): # all these functions are defined >> elsewhere, >> convertpdf(url) # fbut they definitely are working >> properly >> elif findinlink(url, 'htm'): >> converthtml(url) >> elif findinlink(url, 'txt'): >> urllib.urlretrieve(url, parse(x)) >> elif findinlink(url, 'doc'): >> convertdoc(url) >> elif not findinlink(url, '.'): >> converthtml(url) >> else: >> urllist = urls[counter + 1:] + searchhelper(initwords, >> 11 + counter, >> 1) # (I'm >> searchhelper2(initwords, urllist, counter + 1)# >> assuming this is >> where I have # >> erred; however, I'm not sure) >> >> >> def search(initwords): >> urllist = searchhelper(initwords) >> searchhelper2(initwords, urllist, 0) >> >> Thanks, >> Brendan >
Instead of deleting the previous post, you should post the solution for all to learn from. desNotes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
