Here's an example: import cPAMIE import time from time import sleep
search_txt = 'MSNBC Pairs Chung, Povich' date_txt = '8 November 2005' date_tuple = time.strptime(date_txt,'%d %B %Y') today_tuple = time.localtime() if date_tuple[:3] == today_tuple[:3]: print date_txt + ' is today\'s date.' else: print date_txt + ' is not today\'s date.' ie=cPAMIE.PAMIE('http://www.prophet.net/quotes/stocknews.jsp?symbol=MSFT') sleep(1) # let the browser start loading... while ie.getIE().Busy: # wait for the page to fully load sleep(1) sleep(1) # extra pauses tend to help. # Get ASCII string of page data without HTML tags. page_txt = str((ie.getIE().Document.body.innerText).encode('ascii','ignore')) if search_txt in page_txt: print '\"' + search_txt + '\"' + ' found on page.' else: print '\"' + search_txt + '\"' + ' not found on page.' ie.Quit() -RB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list