[Tutor] Is there a better way to get a current mid-rate Yen quote with Python?

[Dick Moores]

At 09:47 AM 7/25/2008, Alan Gauld wrote:
>"Dick Moores" <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote
>>Here's one opinion, an answer to my second question.
>>Dick
>
>And to answer your first: It depends on how you define better.
>
>Certainly Beautiful Soup will not be muh longer and a lot more 
>elegant and probably more resilient.

Alan, expand a bit, please. Longer? Resilient?


>But to extract a single piece of text in a well defined location 
>then your approach although somewhat crude will work just fine.

Crude? What's crude about my code? I want to improve, so please tell 
me. <http://py77.python.pastebin.com/fc7553a4>

Thanks,

Dick
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