will Python do me good?

[Andrew McGregor]

--On Friday, January 31, 2003 16:03:26 -0800 samphdauto <samj at eisa.net.au> 
wrote:

> Hello every one.. Well, this is the first time I post here since I am
> thinking of learning Python... my background is VB and wanting to find
> a better language in order to build my project and not sure if Python
> is my best option. So your input is greatly appreciated.
> My project will need to extract and re-organize information form the
> web into my Access database under W2K. The info could be text, data,
> files, images, sound files, listings, HTML parsing, sound parsing and
> whathaveyou.
>
> So if I give it a list of websites. I will need to write the code to
> get specific info from that site or page. So it may need to drill down
> to get to the info. I am not sure if I am making enough sense to you.
> I hope I am.

Well, this certainly can be done in Python, and much less painfully than in 
VB.  You might be well advised to choose a different database, though (I 
can't claim to be an expert on that, but I'd use Access only if forced to). 
Since both MySQL and Postgresql are available for Windows for free, and 
both are improvements on Access, you probably are not forced to.

Andrew

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