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Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 21:16:37 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 05/24/2013 07:36 PM, Carlos Nepomuceno wrote:
>
>      <SNIP>
> page = urllib2.urlopen("http://example.com/page.html").read().strip()
>
> #to create the tables list
> tables=[[re.findall('<TD>(.*?)</TD>',r,re.S) for r in re.findall('<TR>(.*?)</TR>',t,re.S)] for t in re.findall('<TABLE>(.*?)</TABLE>',page,re.S)]
>
>
> Pretty simple. Good luck!

Only if the page is html, which the OP's was not. It was an image.  Try 
parsing that with regex.



-- 
DaveA