[Tutor] urllib.urlopen & open differences

[ak@silmarill.org]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:19:02PM -0700, Mike Barrett wrote:
> 	Hi, I was just playing with urllib and decided to mess around with
> a simple website monitoring tool.  The idea is that the script would go
> out, read a page, and if the page was different than a file stored (an
> assumed 'good' copy), then it would send an alert.  I ran into a problem
> however, when I noticed that filedescriptors returned by open() act
> differently when they 'read' than filedescriptors returned by
> urllib.urlopen().  
> 	It seems that the open() fd's return raw data (\'s
> escaped) whereas urllib.urlopen() returns the data normally (no
> escaping).  Does anyone know if there is a way to change this?  I'd like
> to just compare the two strings, but as of now it looks like I'm going to
> have to do some line editing.
> 	Any suggestions on how to deal with this?

you can hash() what the urlopen returns and save that.. Just a guess.

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