Data-mining - python

[Franco Saliola]

On Feb 11, 2008 3:31 PM, Richard Seguin <richard.seguin at transubuntu.ca> wrote:
> I'm not sure if data-mining is the right term for it but I am looking
> for a way to extract data off a website (http and https) on a consistent
> basis and I was wondering if python would be a good language to create
> my scripts...  I justed figured I would ask here since most of you
> probably program.

Check out Dive Into Python (free online book: diveintopython.org).
It's a good introduction to python programming and there are chapters
on HTML Processing, XML Processing, Web Services, etc.

Good luck.
Franco

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