what's wrong here? (search script)

[Michael Fisher]

Brendan Fay wrote:
> I figured it out.  Is there any way to delete your own posts?
> 
> Brendan Fay wrote:
>> Dear Someone:
>>
>>      I have written a script that accesses the googleAPI through
>> pygoogle and saves each of the ten documents as a .txt file by using a
>> specific function for each respective file type (.doc, .pdf, .html) to
>> convert it to such.  Everything works fine, except that I am trying to
>> make it search and return another result in the event that a file type
>> other than .doc, .pdf, .html, or .txt comes up.  Python is new to me
>> and I'm not sure why my method doesn't work.  I'd really appreciate any
>> advice; here is the relevant code:
>>
>> def searchhelper(words, start=0, max=10):
>> 	data = google.doGoogleSearch(words)
>> 	objlist = data.results
>> 	urllist = map((lambda x: x.URL), objlist)
>> 	return urllist
>>
>>
>> def searchhelper2(initwords, urls, counter):
>> 	for url in urls:
>> 		if findinlink(url, 'pdf'): # all these functions are defined
>> elsewhere,
>> 			convertpdf(url)  # fbut they definitely are working properly
>> 		elif findinlink(url, 'htm'):
>> 			converthtml(url)
>> 		elif findinlink(url, 'txt'):
>> 			urllib.urlretrieve(url, parse(x))
>> 		elif findinlink(url, 'doc'):
>> 			convertdoc(url)
>> 		elif not findinlink(url, '.'):
>> 			converthtml(url)
>> 		else:
>> 			urllist = urls[counter + 1:] + searchhelper(initwords, 11 + counter,
>> 1) # (I'm
>> 			searchhelper2(initwords, urllist, counter + 1)# assuming this is
>> where I have      #
>>                                   erred; however, I'm not sure)
>>
>>
>> def search(initwords):
>> 	urllist = searchhelper(initwords)
>> 	searchhelper2(initwords, urllist, 0)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brendan
> 

Instead of deleting the previous post, you should post the solution for 
all to learn from.

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