[jQuery] Simple Ajax calls to server for data

[dineshv]

First, I'm very new to JS/JQ.  I've got a simple HTML list of items
that I want updated from the server whenever the user requests it (by
hitting a submit button).  The results from the (Python/webpy) server
are held in a list result[].  Here is the html:

<div id="results">
    <p>"$result[0]"</p>
    <p class="alt">"$result[1]"</p>
    <p>"$result[2]"</p>
    <p class="alt">"$result[3]"</p>
    <p>"$result[4]"</p>
</div>

This is what I have so far:

$.get("/ac", function(data) {
    $("result", data).each(function(result_number) {
        var result_text = $("result", data).get(result_number);
    $("#results").append("<p>".$(result_text).text()."</p>");
    });
});

Which doesn't work!  I'd like to return the results in JSON format for
performance.  I know this is very simple to do and all help
appreciated.

Dinesh