html parser etc help

[Andy McKay]

On 11/06/02 15:45 -0700, Xah Lee wrote:
> i'm learning python in hoping to do switch web programing from perl.
> can anyone show me code snipets for the following problem to get
> me started?
> 
> * snipet to traverse a directory and list files by typer or suffix.

have a look at glob or listdir

import glob
glob.glob('*.py')

> * sample snipet that parse a given html file and print out all <a href> links.

a snippet that will read <link> tags
http://www.agmweb.ca/Scripts/rssAutoDiscovery

> * a sample snipet that fetch and print out the content of a given url.

as above

> --
> # fetch a given webpage
> use LWP::Simple;
> $content = get('http://xahlee.org/');
> print $content;

hey its even shorter in python :)

from urllib import urlopen
print urlopen('http://xahlee.org').read()

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  Andy McKay
  Merlin Technologies