Dear All, I have used the urllib.request and download some of the information from a site.
I am currently using Python 3.4. My program is as follows: import urllib.request response = urllib.request.urlopen(' http://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/ddp/Contract_Details.asp?PId=175') saveFile = open('HKEX.txt','w') saveFile.write(str(response.read())) saveFile.close() And the result is as follows: d align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">8.56</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td align="right">1</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr56" class="tableHdrB1" align="center"><td align="centre">C Jul-15 - 23.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0.01</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0.01</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td align="right">467</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr57" class="tableHdrB2" align="center"><td align="centre">P Jul-15 - 23.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">9.56</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td align="right">0</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr58" class="tableHdrB1" align="center"><td align="centre">C Jul-15 - 24.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0.01</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0.01</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td align="right">156</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr59" class="tableHdrB2" align="center"><td align="centre">P Jul-15 - 24.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">10.56</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td align="right">0</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr60" class="tableHdrB1" align="center"><td align="centre">C Jul-15 - 25.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0.01</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0.01</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td align="right">6</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr61" class="tableHdrB2" align="center"><td align="centre">P Jul-15 - 25.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">11.56</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td align="right">0</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr62" class="tableHdrB1" align="center"><td align="centre">C Aug-15 - 8.75</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">4.71</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td align="right">0</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr63" class="tableHdrB2" align="center"><td align="centre">P Aug-15 - 8.75</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0.03</td><td align="right">0.05</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0.01</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td align="right">35</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr64" class="tableHdrB1" align="center"><td align="centre">C Aug-15 - 9.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><t Please let me know how to deal with this string. I hope I could put onto a table first. Eventually, I am hoping that I can able to put all this database. I need some guidance of which area of coding I should look into. Thank you Hank _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor