[Tutor] advice on how to start with urllib

[Christopher Arndt]

nephish schrieb:
> hey there gents,
> 	i am looking for a good place to start learning how to read a web page
> with python and pull out bits of information for an app i am doing for
> work. i have googled and looked at the docs. i looked at urllib and
> httplib so i think this a place to kinda start. Does anyone know of a
> good site with some examples or tutorials for this kind of thing ? 

The online book "Diving into Python" by Mark Pilgrim has an excellent chapter
on how to download webpages and process them:

http://diveintopython.org/http_web_services/index.html

HTH, Chris