[Tutor] String Problem

Crusier crusier at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 09:44:32 CEST 2015


Dear All,

I have used the urllib.request and download some of the information from a
site.

I am currently using Python 3.4. My program is as follows:

import urllib.request

response = urllib.request.urlopen('
http://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/ddp/Contract_Details.asp?PId=175')

saveFile = open('HKEX.txt','w')
saveFile.write(str(response.read()))
saveFile.close()



And the result is as follows:

d align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td
align="right">8.56</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td
align="right">1</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr56"
class="tableHdrB1" align="center"><td align="centre">C Jul-15 -
23.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td
align="right">0.01</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> -
</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td
align="right">0.01</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td
align="right">467</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr57"
class="tableHdrB2" align="center"><td align="centre">P Jul-15 -
23.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td
align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> -
</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td
align="right">9.56</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td
align="right">0</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr58"
class="tableHdrB1" align="center"><td align="centre">C Jul-15 -
24.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td
align="right">0.01</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> -
</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td
align="right">0.01</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td
align="right">156</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr59"
class="tableHdrB2" align="center"><td align="centre">P Jul-15 -
24.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td
align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> -
</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td
align="right">10.56</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td
align="right">0</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr60"
class="tableHdrB1" align="center"><td align="centre">C Jul-15 -
25.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td
align="right">0.01</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> -
</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td
align="right">0.01</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td
align="right">6</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr61"
class="tableHdrB2" align="center"><td align="centre">P Jul-15 -
25.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td
align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> -
</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td
align="right">11.56</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td
align="right">0</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr62"
class="tableHdrB1" align="center"><td align="centre">C Aug-15 -
8.75</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td
align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> -
</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td
align="right">4.71</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td
align="right">0</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr63"
class="tableHdrB2" align="center"><td align="centre">P Aug-15 -
8.75</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0.03</td><td
align="right">0.05</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> -
</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right">0</td><td
align="right">0.01</td><td align="right">N/A</td><td
align="right">35</td></tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr id="tr64"
class="tableHdrB1" align="center"><td align="centre">C Aug-15 -
9.00</td><td align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><td
align="right"> - </td><td align="right"> - </td><t

Please let me know how to deal with this string. I hope I could put onto a
table first. Eventually, I am hoping that I can able to put all this
database. I need some guidance of which area of coding I should look into.

Thank you
Hank


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