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This script is a simple example of Python's urllib2 built-in function, and illustrates how easy it is to use network functionality directly in Python | |||
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You can try this from home! Paste this script into a file (such as getimg.py) and if you have installed a Python interpreter | |||
You can try this from home! Paste this script into a file (such as getimg.py) and if you have installed a Python interpreter you can run this script. On Mac OS or Linux you probably have Python already, those on Windows you will have to install Python (from http://python.org) | |||
Revision as of 22:30, 28 June 2009
This script is a simple example of Python's urllib2 built-in function, and illustrates how easy it is to use network functionality directly in Python
import urllib2
cnt=0
for line in urllib2.urlopen('http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page'):
cnt += line.count('<img src')
print cnt
You can try this from home! Paste this script into a file (such as getimg.py) and if you have installed a Python interpreter you can run this script. On Mac OS or Linux you probably have Python already, those on Windows you will have to install Python (from http://python.org)