[Tutor] Pyton and Webpages

[Bob Gailer]

Jon Whitehouse wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> I'm a newbie to python and am curious if I can do the following in python. I'm
> not asking HOW to do this, just if it is possible before I spend the time to
> learn python and do it myself.
>
> I want to write a program to go to a webpage, pull the data, 
Yes. There is a module for that. Since you want to discover it yourself 
I won't name it here. Hint: going to a web page requires a url.
> and then place it into an excel spreadsheet 
Yes. There are several ways to do that.
> and then write it to an html file 
Yes. Python provides file i/o.
> and allow me to also click on the link to the excel spreadsheet.
>   
Permission granted. You may click. (attempt at humor). Actually I don't 
know what you mean.