Re: [Tutor] Pyton and Webpages

2006-05-01 Thread Nelson, Scott
WRT creating the Excel file... The previously mentioned techniques work great. But, if you want to start off even simpler, just create a .csv (comma separated value) file with python's file i/o (there is even a python module to help you with this if you want). It is just a simple text file that

Re: [Tutor] copying files and regular expressions

2006-05-01 Thread Danny Yoo
On Mon, 1 May 2006, Alfonso wrote: > I'm totally new to python. I would like to know, how can I copy files > using regular expressions (the equivalent in python to unix "cp > /home/mycount/*partialname* /home/mycount/directory/"). Hi Alfonso, Just as a pedantic note: the above pattern you're

[Tutor] copying files and regular expressions

2006-05-01 Thread Alfonso
I'm totally new to python. I would like to know, how can I copy files using regular expressions (the equivalent in python to unix "cp /home/mycount/*partialname* /home/mycount/directory/"). __ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. L

Re: [Tutor] Pyton and Webpages

2006-05-01 Thread Kent Johnson
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

Re: [Tutor] Pyton and Webpages

2006-05-01 Thread 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,

[Tutor] Pyton and Webpages

2006-05-01 Thread Jon Whitehouse
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, and then place it into an excel s

Re: [Tutor] Splitting strings into blocks

2006-05-01 Thread Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson wrote: > For a general parser of LaTex expressions you will want to use a parsing > package. I have found pyparsing to be pretty easy to use but there are > many others. Someone may have solved this problem already. Googling 'python latex parser' gives some interesting hits includin

Re: [Tutor] Splitting strings into blocks

2006-05-01 Thread Kent Johnson
Daniel Watkins wrote: > Hi list, > I'm currently working on a program to parse LaTeX style maths expressions and > provide an answer. For example, I have the expression "2^\frac{1}{2}". I'm > trying to work out a way to split this into it's most basic blocks of LaTeX > (i.e. 2^ and \frac{1}{2})