On 19 Oct, 14:44, StarWing wrote:
> On Oct 19, 9:15 pm, khany wrote:
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> > On 19 Oct, 13:44, khany wrote:
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> > > hello all,
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> > > i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i
> > > have over to it using googleapps.
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> > > anyway here is the problem. i poll ebay API which has in its XML " > > xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/search/v1/services";> "
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> > > however it fails to create the string UNLESS i remove the colon (:) in
> > > the http section. i tried to substitute it with chr(58) but it errors
> > > the same without showing why. does anyone know what i am doing wrong?
> > > is this peculiar to googleapps?
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> > > thanks
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> > OK
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> > first thanks for replying so soon (most other groups out there take
> > days)
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> > here is the code
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> >
> > xml = ' \
> > http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/
> > search/v1/services"> \
> > %(category)i \
> > %(searchtext)s \
> > \
> > %(page)i \
> > 10 \
> > \
> > ' % \
> > {'category':9834, 'searchtext':"bmw", 'page':1}
> > print xml
> >
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> > if i run this, the page is blank (even the source) with no errors or
> > anything. if i remove the colon from the string (after the http) it
> > prints the string on the browser fine.
>
> > HTH
>
> you can use a tri-quote string or make sure all lines end with \:
> xml1 = """
> http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/\
> search/v1/services">
> %(category)i
> %(searchtext)s
>
> %(page)i
> 10
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> """ % \
> {'category':9834, 'searchtext':"bmw", 'page':1}
>
> xml2 = '\n\
> http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/\
> search/v1/services">\n\
> %(category)i\n\
> %(searchtext)s\n\
> \n\
> %(page)i\n\
> 10\n\
> \n\
> ' % \
> {'category':9834, 'searchtext':"bmw", 'page':1}
>
> print xml1
> print xml2
StarWing,
The triple String works a treat thanks. Not sure what the colon issue
was though. Now im getting Unsupported verb errors but thats an ebay
API issue i can work with.
Thanks to all for your help
khany
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