[Tutor] Is there a better way to get a current mid-rate Yen

[Lie Ryan]

> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:14:32 -0700
> From: Dick Moores <rdm at rcblue.com>
> Subject: [Tutor] Is there a better way to get a current mid-rate Yen
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> Better than this? <http://py77.python.pastebin.com/fc7553a4>
> 
> I've heard about BeautifulSoup. 
> <http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/>. Is it worth 
> learning? Is it crummy? ;-)
> 
> So 2 questions.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dick Moores

Slightly better would be to use the re (regular expression) module.
It'd be more flexible than coding and easier than Beautiful Soup (which,
IMHO, is an overkill for simple data extraction like this).