Hello. I am getting an error and it has gotten me stuck. I think the best thing I can do is post my code and the error message and thank everybody in advanced for any help that you give this issue. Thank you.
############# Here's the code: ############# import urllib2 import re import xlrd from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup book = xlrd.open_workbook("ige_virtualMoney.xls") sh = book.sheet_by_index(0) rx = 1 for rx in range(sh.nrows): u = sh.cell_value(rx, 0) page = urllib2.urlopen(u) soup = BeautifulSoup(page) p = soup.findAll('span', "sale") p = str(p) p2 = re.findall('\$\d+\.\d\d', p) for price in p2: print price ###################### Here are the error messages: ###################### Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:\Python24\scraper.py", line 16, in -toplevel- page = urllib2.urlopen(u) File "E:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data) File "E:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 350, in open protocol = req.get_type() File "E:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 233, in get_type raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original ValueError: unknown url type: List -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list