Data-mining - python

[Jack Bowling]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:30:00PM -0500, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> Franco Saliola wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> better still:  that book is normally installed by default on all Ubuntu 
> installations.  On your computer, just point your web browser to:
> 
>    file:///usr/share/doc/diveintopython/html/index.html
>

Thanks, Daniel. It is indeed right where you said it was.

Jack