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 e.g.) and then, > > 2-copies some data (a population number, e.g. 54195) and then, > > 3-pastes that data back into the same MS Excel spreadsheet, into the > adjacent cell.
Why do you want to do this in python? I thought visual basic (or a variant thereof) was the preferred coding environment for such things in ms office? A quick google finds me vb code to download a url into a string - presumably once you've done that you can find the value you want to scrape into your spreadsheet. -- Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
