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Python: Problems finding string in website source code

Answer 1

+4 A:

Use readlines() instead of read() to get a list of lines.

miles82 2010-05-06 07:08:04

Ok I found my data. The problem is the data is the total string is thisvar myData = [["NAME","NUM","CLASS", "ADDY", "ID"],[...]];How can I separate the groups?

j00niner 2010-05-06 07:32:21

Please edit your question and show an example of what you want.

miles82 2010-05-06 07:52:28

Answer 2

A:

Maybe it is better if you parse it with regex or better and HTML parser.

Anyway you can do:

import urllib2

for item in urllib2.urlopen("http://www.python.org"):
    print '->', item

and you get the different lines:

-> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3. or /TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
->
->
-> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
-> 
-> <head>
->   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> 
->   <title>Python Programming Language -- Official Website</title> 
->   <meta name="keywords" content="python programming language object oriented web  free source" />
->   <meta name="description" content="      Home page for Python, an interpreted, interactive,  object-oriented, extensible

.........etc

joaquin 2010-05-06 07:09:47

Answer 3

+1 A:

Or use:

for line in source.split("\n"):
    ...

wump 2010-05-06 07:09:50

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