Jason;
Thank you for your response. I’m just starting out with Python and the
tutorials I have done are on 2.7.9. I will looking on to python3. It is
preloaded on Mac :-).
Jason
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> On Mar 6, 2015, at 9:37 PM, Jason Friedman wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Jason Venneri wrote:
>> Hello, I'm using the urllib.urlretrieve command to retrieve a couple of
>> lines of data. I want to combine the two results into one file not two.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Sample
>> urllib.urlretrieve('http://www.airplanes.com/data/boeing1.html','B747A.txt')
>> urllib.urlretrieve('http://www.airplanes.com/data/boeing2.html','B747B.txt')
>>
>> I would like one file say B747C that contains the data from B747A and B747B
>> in a file named B747C
>
>>>> f = open("B747C.txt", "w")
>>>> look_for = "Aircraft,"
>>>> for line in open("B747A.txt"):
> ... if look_for in line:
> ... f.write(line)
> ...
>>>> for line in open("B747B.txt"):
> ... if look_for in line:
> ... f.write(line)
> ...
>>>> f.close()
>
> Seems like you are using Python 2, you ought to consider Python 3.
>
> The requests module
> (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/install/) makes this
> kind of work easier.
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