On 05/01/2017 06:12 PM, Ian Monat wrote: > Thank you for the reply Mats. > > I agree the fact that files are wrapped in an .exe is ridiculous. We're > talking about a $15B company that is doing this by the way, not a ma and pa > shop. Anyways... > > If I understand you correctly, you're saying I can: > > 1) Use Python to download the file from the web (but not by using a > webscraper, according to Alan) > 2) Simply ignore the .exe wrapper and use, maybe Windows Task Manager, to > unzip the file and place the .txt file in the desired folder > > Am I understanding you correctly? > > Thank you -Ian
Once you figure out the filename to download - and this may require some scraping of the page - I'm thinking something like: import subprocess downloaded_filename = "something.exe" # whatever you found to download cmd = "7z x " + downloaded_filename res = subprocess.check_output(cmd) examine res to make sure there was something to extract then go on and fish file(s) out of the zipfile I have nothing to experiment with this on, so it's just "thinking out loud". I have at some point used 7z (and most of the other windows archivers that you'd consider "third party" can probably do something like) interactively to fish a zip out of an exe, but there's no reason it wouldn't work from the command line that I know of. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
