Python program problem involving reading a web site.

[Mike Varney]

"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
news:3CF700DD.5C0EE136 at engcorp.com...
> Mike Varney wrote:
> >
> > "Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> > > Mike Varney wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I wrote a quick little program that is supposed to read the html
from a
> > > > web site and to update the web counter to show another hit.
> > >
> > > Is there some valid reason for updating a web counter in this way?
> >
> [snip unhelpful reply]
> > Regardless, it is a question related to the implementation of python.
>
> What does that imply?  That the question must be answered?  I'm
> an engineer: I have concerns about the misuse of technology, and
> I consider the moral consequences of my actions, including when I
> might provide assistance with problems which apparently have no
> redeeming social merit.

Blah blah blah.  Don't answer if you do not want to.


> > > It smells like the moral equivalent of ballot-stuffing...  maybe I'm
> > > just missing something.
> >
> > Yup.  But the question still remains.
>
> And will remain, unanswered by me at least.

Fine.  Thanks anyhow. :-)
Now, back to work in my physics lab creating the ultimate weapon... endless
re-runs of Bush's inaugural address.