scraping a web page

[Tom Harris]

HI,

I used to have a script that would automatically renew my library books by
talking to the library catalogue via telnet. I tried to use it again and I
find that they have removed the telnet option, and just left the CGI web
page. What is the suggested Pythonic solution to retreiving information from
http pages, I could use a regex but this would take some care to be less
than extremely fragile, and would probably break every time a small change
was made to the page.

Tom Harris, Software Engineer
Optiscan Imaging, 15-17 Normanby Rd, Notting Hill, Melbourne, Vic 3168,
Australia
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