Re: Creating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Herman
Hi there - Yes, as others have said, this is not an easy project. That said, it can be down. I'd use a combination of DataNitro, to connect with Excel, and Scrapy, to easily scrap and crawl the sites. I'm adept at both and would be happy to help you with this. Email me at mich...@mherman.org for h

Re: Creating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program

2013-06-14 Thread buford . lumbar
On Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:02:03 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:28:09 -0700, buford.lumbar wrote: > > > > > Hi, I'm new to Python. Would someone be able to write me and/or to show > > > me how to write a simple program that: > > [snip directions] > > > > Cannot

Re: Creating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program

2013-06-14 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-06-13, Nick Cash wrote: >>> there is a python module that reads and writes to excel files. look >>> for that > >>More than one, actually, and which to use depends on whether >>"Excel files" means the .xls or .xlsx format. On Windows, the >>most flexible solution is going to be to just u

Re: Creating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program

2013-06-14 Thread Denis McMahon
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:28:09 -0700, buford.lumbar wrote: > Hi, I'm new to Python. Would someone be able to write me and/or to show > me how to write a simple program that: > > 1-follows a hyperlink from MS Excel to the internet (one of many links > like this, http://www.zipdatamaps.com/76180, for

Re: Creating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program

2013-06-13 Thread rusi
On Jun 14, 12:28 am, buford.lum...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, I'm new to Python. Would someone be able to write me and/or to show me > how to write a simple program that: > > 1-follows a hyperlink from MS Excel to the internet (one of many links like > this,http://www.zipdatamaps.com/76180, for e.g.)

Re: Creating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program

2013-06-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:28:09 -0700, buford.lumbar wrote: > Hi, I'm new to Python. Would someone be able to write me and/or to show > me how to write a simple program that: [snip directions] Cannot be done. What you describe is not "simple", and it certainly is not "super simple" like you have in

RE: Creating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program

2013-06-13 Thread Nick Cash
>> there is a python module that reads and writes to excel files. look >> for that >More than one, actually, and which to use depends on whether "Excel files" >means the .xls or .xlsx >format. On Windows, the most flexible solution is going to be to just use COM >to control the Excel >applic

Re: Creating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program

2013-06-13 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > there is a python module that reads and writes to excel files. look for > that More than one, actually, and which to use depends on whether "Excel files" means the .xls or .xlsx format. On Windows, the most flexible solution is going to b

Re: Creating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program

2013-06-13 Thread buford . lumbar
On Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:41:24 PM UTC-4, Joel Goldstick wrote: > there is a python module that reads and writes to excel files.  look for that > > > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:28 PM, wrote: > > Hi, I'm new to Python. Would someone be able to write me and/or to show me > how to write

Re: Creating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program

2013-06-13 Thread Dave Angel
On 06/13/2013 03:28 PM, buford.lum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm new to Python. Would someone be able to write me and/or to show me how to write a simple program that: Hi, welcome to Python, and to the Python-list It's NOT a simple program, except by a very constrained definition of simple.

Re: Creating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program

2013-06-13 Thread Joel Goldstick
there is a python module that reads and writes to excel files. look for that On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:28 PM, wrote: > Hi, I'm new to Python. Would someone be able to write me and/or to show me > how to write a simple program that: > > 1-follows a hyperlink from MS Excel to the internet (one o

Creating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program

2013-06-13 Thread buford . lumbar
Hi, I'm new to Python. Would someone be able to write me and/or to show me how to write a simple program that: 1-follows a hyperlink from MS Excel to the internet (one of many links like this, http://www.zipdatamaps.com/76180, for e.g.) and then, 2-copies some data (a population number, e.g. 54