[Tutor] extract plain english words from html

2005-10-14 Thread Marc Buehler
hi. i have a ton of html files from which i want to extract the plain english words, and then write those words into a single text file. example: <... all kinds html tags ...> this is text from the above, i want to extract the string 'this is text' and write it out to a text file. note that

[Tutor] passing variable to python script

2005-10-13 Thread Marc Buehler
hi. i want to pass an argument (a number) to a python script when running it: > python script.py i want to be able to use within script.py as a parameter. how do i set this up? marc --- The apocalyptic visio

[Tutor] how to alter list content

2005-10-13 Thread Marc Buehler
hi. i create a list of all JPG files with: >>> list = glob.glob('*.JPG') the content of 'list' is now: >>> print list ['DSC1.JPG', 'DSC2.JPG', 'DSC3.JPG'] but what i want is this type of list: ['DSC1', 'DSC2', 'DSC3'] i.e. the names w/o the file extension. what's the easi

[Tutor] how to extract number of files from directory

2005-10-12 Thread Marc Buehler
hi. i'm new to Python ... i would like to extract the number of JPG files from the current directory and use that number as a parameter in my python script. i tried: a = os.system('ls *JPG | wc -l') when i do: print a i get '0'. what am i missing? marc ---