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Re: Getting a value that follows string.find()

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On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 5:58:07 PM UTC-5, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> lookup urlparse for you answer
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> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:51 PM,  <> wrote:
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> > I know the title doesn't make much sense, but I didnt know how to explain my problem.
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> > Anywho, I've opened a page's source in URLLIB
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> > starturlsource = starturlopen.read()
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> > string.find(starturlsource, '<a href="/profile.php?id=')
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> > And I used string.find to find a specific area in the page's source.
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> > I want to store what comes after ?id= in a variable.
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> > Can someone help me with this?
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> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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> Joel Goldstick
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> http://joelgoldstick.com

I dont want to do any kind of HTML parsing.

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Getting a value that follows string.find() englishkevin110@gmail.com - 2013-08-13 15:51 -0700
  Re: Getting a value that follows string.find() Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 18:58 -0400
    Re: Getting a value that follows string.find() englishkevin110@gmail.com - 2013-08-13 16:03 -0700
      Re: Getting a value that follows string.find() Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 19:18 -0400
      Re: Getting a value that follows string.find() Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 19:40 -0400
      Re: Getting a value that follows string.find() Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-14 06:29 +0000
  Re: Getting a value that follows string.find() Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-14 01:31 +0000
  Re: Getting a value that follows string.find() John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-08-14 15:58 +0000

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