what's going on here?

[John Salerno]

John Salerno wrote:
> Ant wrote:
>> You are along the right lines. Try printing out the content of each URL
>> - one of the pages will match your expression, but has additional
>> instructions... I think you are reaching the end of their false trail
>> when you get None returned from the url.
> 
> But the weird thing is that when I tried the same script earlier in the 
> day, it went through about 200+ links before encountering a situation 
> that my script didn't handle. But now when I get this latest error that 
> I posted, it's only going through about 150 links before stopping.
> 
>> The set of pages themselves are the linked list - each contains a
>> reference to the next element in the sequence. You don't need one to
>> solve the problem, the problem *is* the linked list!
> 
> Interesting! That's good news, and I'm glad I didn't spend hours trying 
> to use one to solve it! :)

Ok, I'm confused. I ran the script again today (this time at work again) 
and it worked! I made no changes, so I'm not sure what the issue was. 
But thank god I'm passed this problem, although I'm sure it only gets 
worse now!