[Beginner] Programming Challenge: 4

[M_the_C]

It also looks like converting the variable that contains the web page data into a string is not trivial either:

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 31 2008, 23:17:40) 
[GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import urllib2
>>> import re
>>> web = urllib2.urlopen('http://laroza.freehostia.com/home/index.php')
>>> print web
<addinfourl at 3081093036L whose fp = <socket._fileobject object at 0xb7dc2304>>
>>> web = str(web)
>>> print web
<addinfourl at 3081093036L whose fp = <socket._fileobject object at 0xb7dc2304>>
>>> test = str(web)
>>> print test
<addinfourl at 3081093036L whose fp = <socket._fileobject object at 0xb7dc2304>> 

I guess I will have to look in to another method of doing a grep type search of a variable containing web page code...

I think I see your problem. urllib.urlopen returns the location, you need to end it with .read() . To use your example:

web = urllib2.urlopen('http://laroza.freehostia.com/home/index.php').read()

This way, instead of storing the location it stores what is there.

[jimi_hendrix]

when are we judging this...im curious to see the winners

[LaRoza]

when are we judging this...im curious to see the winners

I am not going to judge anymore (no polls)

Hopefully, the challenges will be good learning experiences with feedback.

I will make a new challenge soon with this new scheme explictly described in the first post.

[Titan8990]

Even though I am typically a very competitive person I do not view these challenges as a competition. They are good learning experiences and nothing more.

[jimi_hendrix]

winner was the wrong word...i should have said if mine can compile and when the next one comes out

[LaRoza]

winner was the wrong word...i should have said if mine can compile and when the next one comes out

I tried this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...0&postcount=67

Because I felt sympathetic, I fixed two bugs in it, and it couldn't save (I was running it not in my home).

Please look it over and fix the variable names (remember, they are case sensitive!) and have it save where ever it is being run.

[jimi_hendrix]

ya i know what happend...it was late and my OCD to make my naming convention perfect and i kinda fell asleep halfway through me changing the capitalization

any clue why it wont compile on my ubuntu computer...says something along the lines of System.Net doesnt exist

[true_friend]

ya i know what happend...it was late and my OCD to make my naming convention perfect and i kinda fell asleep halfway through me changing the capitalization

any clue why it wont compile on my ubuntu computer...says something along the lines of System.Net doesnt exist

"System.Net" is a standard class library shipped with c# (both ms .net and mono).
Perhaps the compiler u are using is old. Looks it is mcs try to use gmcs (mono 2). Otherwise the problem is of mono installation, as far as I think, because there is nothing "advanced" in this code that mono hasn't implemented.
Regards

[Titan8990]

Ignore this post. I descided it was best to create a different thread geared towards my question (which is somewhat unrelated to the challenge).

[dwhitney67]

It doesn't get any easier than this...

#include <cstdlib>
int main()
{
  system( "wget http://laroza.freehostia.com/home/index.php >& /dev/null; mv index.php index.xhtml" );
  return 0;
}