[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The HTML comes from a bunch of files which are saved in my computer.They
> were generated by a php script and I want to extract certain fields for
> insertion in to a MySQL db.
> I`m trying to get the hang of correctly opening the files first :)
> There are about a thousand of them so I have to use a loop in the script
> since the files are named article1.html,article2.html,etc.
> Thanks for the help!
Try something like this:
def process(data):
# this is a function you define to process the data from one file
maxFileIndex = ... # whatever the max count is
for i in range(1, maxFileIndex+1): # i will take on each value
# from 1 to maxFileIndex
name = 'article%s.html' % i # make a file name
f = open(name) # open the file and read its contents
data = f.read()
f.close()
process(data)
Kent
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