[Tutor] Please help!!

[Alan Gauld]

[CCing back to list]

> I know HTML even if I haven't used it for sometimes. I Also know 
> couple other programming languages (Visual basic, some C++).
> I just taken a Python course of writting Python scripts for ArcGIS 
> so that if you sent me a script, I will be able to understand it.

OK, now we know the background we know where to pitch the reply.
I don't have a script that will do exactly what you want but someone
else posted a snippet showing how to use urllib.

If you need to parse the html that you read from urllib then you might
find BeautifulSoup worth a look.

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

It makes extracting elements from html fairly painless.

But if its easy to find a simple search of the string for the img tag
may suffice.

HTH,

Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld

>
>  From:  "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk>
>  To:  "MATATA EMMANUEL" <emmatata at hotmail.com>,<Tutor at python.org>
>  Subject:  Re: [Tutor] Please help!!
>  Date:  Sat, 20 May 2006 13:15:41 +0100
>  >>I'm tasked to write a Paython script which is supposed to hit a 
> web >>site and download a shapefile from that web site.
>  >
>  >The urllib module should do that for you but...
>  >
>  >>I don't have any clue and would like your help.
>  >
>  >What do you know?
>  >Do you understand HTML? and specifically how to create and read 
> img >tags?
>  >
>  >Do you know any Python? Do you know any other programming 
> language?
>  >
>  >>I use 9.x if this matter.
>  >
>  >Version 9.x of what?
>  >Operating System - on a Mac perhaps?
>  >If so it shouldn't matter since Python's urllib works OK on the 
>  >older versions.
>  >
>  >We really need a liittle more background to help further.
>  >
>  >HTH,
>  >
>  >Alan G.
>  >
>