Data-mining - python

[Daniel Robitaille]

Franco Saliola wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2008 3:31 PM, Richard Seguin <richard.seguin at transubuntu.ca> wrote:
>> I'm not sure if data-mining is the right term for it but I am looking
>> for a way to extract data off a website (http and https) on a consistent
>> basis and I was wondering if python would be a good language to create
>> my scripts...  I justed figured I would ask here since most of you
>> probably program.
> 
> Check out Dive Into Python (free online book: diveintopython.org).
> It's a good introduction to python programming and there are chapters
> on HTML Processing, XML Processing, Web Services, etc.

better still:  that book is normally installed by default on all Ubuntu 
installations.  On your computer, just point your web browser to:

   file:///usr/share/doc/diveintopython/html/index.html