Chapter 10 Creating and Modifying Text.ppt

* Demo eliza here. Where’s the temperature? The word “temperature” doesn’t really show up. But the temperature always follows the word “Currently”, and always comes before the “bdeg;/b” td img src=/shared-local/weather/images/ps.gif width=48 height=48 border=0font size=-2br/fontfont size=-1 face=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serifbCurrently/bbr Partly sunnybr font size=+254bdeg;/b/fontfont face=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=+1F/font/font/td /tr We can use the same algorithm we’ve seen previously Grab the content out of a file in a big string. (We’ve saved the HTML page previously. Soon, we’ll see how to grab it directly.) Find the starting indicator (“Currently”) Find the ending indicator (“bdeg;”) Read the previous characters Finding the temperature def findTemperature(): weatherFile = getMediaPath(ajc-weather.html) file = open(weatherFile,rt) weather = file.read() file.close() # Find the Temperature curloc = weather.find(Currently) if curloc -1: # Now, find the bdeg; following the temp temploc = weather.find(bdeg;,curloc) tempstart = weather.rfind(,0,temploc) print Current temperature:,weather[tempstart+1:temploc] if curloc == -1: print They must have changed the page format -- cant find the temp Adding new capabilities: Modules What we need to do is to add capabilities to Python that we haven’t seen so far. We do this by importing external modules. A module is a file with a bunch of additional functions and objects defined within it. Some kind of module capability exists in virtually every programming language. By importing the module, we make the module’s capabilities available to our program. Literally, we are evaluating the module, as if we’d typed them into our file. Python’s Standard Library Python has an extensive library of modules that come with it. The Python standard library includes modules that allow us to access the Internet, deal with time, generate random numbers, and…access files in a directory. Accessing pieces