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By: it.gen.nz » A little programming project - part 3

it.gen.nz » A little programming project - part 3 — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:16:52 +0000

[...] few weeks ago I blogged about writing a little program to make my life easier. (The entries are here and here.) In summary this program automates the messy but easy administrative task of editing [...]

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:21:18 +0000

Thanks Lawrence. I’d looked for typos, but hadn’t spotted that one.

By: colin

colin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:50:52 +0000

I've done a new post on this one - please continue the comments there.

By: Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Lawrence D'Oliveiro — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:50:14 +0000

“rnzrurl” vs “rnzurl”

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:38:56 +0000

Hi Colin,

still no joy. :-(

The following lines numbered here for ease of reading, but not numbered in the Terminal entries. I do this:

1] python
2] import urllib
3] rnzrurl = “http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon”
4] page = urllib.urlopen(rnzurl).read()

and get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
NameError: name ‘rnzurl’ is not defined

At least the error message is now different from the first one I was seeing. :-)

Any further thoughts?

Cheers,

Miraz

By: colin

colin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:54:04 +0000

Hi Miraz

You have spotted my deliberate mistake :-)

The ‘urlopen’ needs to be prefixed by a ‘urllib.’ so Python knows where to find it.

The line in question should read:

page = urllib.urlopen(rnzurl).read()

I’ll change the posting so it’s correct.

Anyone else find errors, please point them out.

Colin

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:47:37 +0000

Hey Colin,

thanks so much for the link love. :-)

Thanks too for the beginnings of this practical intro to Python – it’s something I’ve long been curious about.

I have a problem. I get as far as the 4th line in your instructions above (the line starting page=) and get an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
NameError: name ‘urlopen’ is not defined

My version of Python is the same as yours (except that yours says 19:35:16 and mine says 19:35:17). Any idea why I might be getting an error?

I’ve copied and pasted (or dragged and dropped) from your instructions…

By: Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Lawrence D'Oliveiro — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:27:20 +0000

Python is a great choice. Having started learning it myself about three years ago, after doing Perl for many years, I must say it’s a refreshing change–a good, clean, compact core with an amazing number of libraries built on top of that.

Just one thought: shouldn’t you use https:// instead of http:// in the XML-RPC to your WordPress server? Security and all that…