Alan,
Man! I was thinking that it was simple. This is a little bit hard but will try to make sense of it as I can.
Thank you for your assistance. I'm glad you're up there to assist.
Matt
From: "Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "MATATA EMMANUEL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: <tutor@python.org>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Please help!!
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 17:58:20 +0100
>[CCing back to list]
>
>>I know HTML even if I haven't used it for sometimes. I Also know
>>couple other programming languages (Visual basic, some C++).
>>I just taken a Python course of writting Python scripts for ArcGIS
>>so that if you sent me a script, I will be able to understand it.
>
>OK, now we know the background we know where to pitch the reply.
>I don't have a script that will do exactly what you want but someone
>else posted a snippet showing how to use urllib.
>
>If you need to parse the html that you read from urllib then you
>might
>find BeautifulSoup worth a look.
>
>http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
>
>It makes extracting elements from html fairly painless.
>
>But if its easy to find a simple search of the string for the img
>tag
>may suffice.
>
>HTH,
>
>Alan Gauld
>Author of the Learn to Program web site
>http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
>
>>
>> From: "Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "MATATA EMMANUEL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<Tutor@python.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Please help!!
>> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 13:15:41 +0100
>> >>I'm tasked to write a Paython script which is supposed to hit a
>>web >>site and download a shapefile from that web site.
>> >
>> >The urllib module should do that for you but...
>> >
>> >>I don't have any clue and would like your help.
>> >
>> >What do you know?
>> >Do you understand HTML? and specifically how to create and read
>>img >tags?
>> >
>> >Do you know any Python? Do you know any other programming
>>language?
>> >
>> >>I use 9.x if this matter.
>> >
>> >Version 9.x of what?
>> >Operating System - on a Mac perhaps?
>> >If so it shouldn't matter since Python's urllib works OK on the
>> >older versions.
>> >
>> >We really need a liittle more background to help further.
>> >
>> >HTH,
>> >
>> >Alan G.
>> >
>>
>
>
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