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Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot)

Date 2013-05-24 21:16 -0400
From Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot)
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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.



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DaveA

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Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) logan.c.graham@gmail.com - 2013-05-24 10:32 -0700
  Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-24 15:41 -0400
  RE: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-25 02:36 +0300
    Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-05-25 18:33 -0700
      Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) logan.c.graham@gmail.com - 2013-05-27 17:58 -0700
        RE: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-28 04:21 +0300
        RE: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Phil Connell <pconnell@gmail.com> - 2013-05-28 07:40 +0100
  Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-24 21:16 -0400
  Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-25 13:22 +1000
    Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) logan.c.graham@gmail.com - 2013-05-25 17:48 -0700
  Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) "neil.suffield@gmail.com" <neil.suffield@gmail.com> - 2013-05-25 03:13 -0700
  Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) "neil.suffield@gmail.com" <neil.suffield@gmail.com> - 2013-05-25 03:15 -0700

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