[Tutor] getting a webpage via python

[Eric Culpepper]

You could use the builtin modules like urllib2, httplib, or you could use John Lee's spifftastic module "mechanize". I use mechanize a lot for automating downloading files from various partner websites my company has relations with.

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-httplib.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib2.html
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/

Good luck.

Eric Culpepper
eculpepper at hcc-care.com 

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From: tutor-bounces at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org]On
Behalf Of Paul Tremblay
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:21 AM
To: python tutor
Subject: [Tutor] getting a webpage via python


Is there a simple way to get a web page with python? I have done no
network programming with python before. 

My router (a Linksys 54G model) stores the IP/MAC addresss in a web
page. There is no way for me to access them except through the web. 

Righ now, I am using this code:

command = 'lynx -reload -auth %s:%s -source http://%s/DHCPTable.asp > %s' % (
             self.__log_name, self.__log_password, self.__router_address, temp_out1)
(exit_status, out_text) = commands.getstatusoutput(command)

The lynx terminal browser dumps the raw HTML page to the out_text, and I
can then parse it.

I would like to make the code independent of lynx, if possible.

Thanks

Paul

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