Alittle python help

[blithen]

Here is what I'm basically trying to code


os.system("lynx www.magiccards.info/random.html -dump"
os.system("grep the dumped information for certain pieces of information.")
Think anyone could help?

[kcode]

What errors are you getting ??

Have you imported 'os' module?
Hope you have done this:


import os

And closed bracket is missing in first line.

[raf_kig]

What you probably want to use is urllib2;;



import urllib2

f = urllib2.urlopen('http://example.com')

for line in f:
print line #do your matching here

The module BeautifulSoup might be useful for the parsing job, google for it, there are lots of howtos.


If you want to use external programs have a look at the os.popen* functions.

Regards

raf