Re: [Tutor] Is there a better way to get a current mid-rate Yen

> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:14:32 -0700 > From: Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Tutor] Is there a better way to get a current mid-rate Yen > quote with Python? > To: Python Tutor List > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/

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

At 04:11 PM 7/25/2008, Alan Gauld wrote: "Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Certainly Beautiful Soup will not be muh longer and a lot more elegant and probably more resilient. Alan, expand a bit, please. Longer? Resilient? Longer as in lines of code. BS is good for extracting several di

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

"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Certainly Beautiful Soup will not be muh longer and a lot more elegant and probably more resilient. Alan, expand a bit, please. Longer? Resilient? Longer as in lines of code. BS is good for extracting several different parts from the soup, but just to

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

At 09:47 AM 7/25/2008, Alan Gauld wrote: "Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 r

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

"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. But to extract a single piec

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

Here's one opinion, an answer to my second question. Dick Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:54:53 -0500 From: "W W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Is there a better way to get a current mid-rate Yen quote with Pyt

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

Better than this? I've heard about BeautifulSoup. . Is it worth learning? Is it crummy? ;-) So 2 questions. Thanks, Dick Moores ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor