Top-rated recipes by Gisle Aas http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/98047/top/2001-02-23T19:15:17-08:00ActiveState Code RecipesGrab a document from the web (Python) 2001-02-23T19:15:17-08:00Gisle Aashttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/98047/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52199-grab-a-document-from-the-web/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 52199 by <a href="/recipes/users/98047/">Gisle Aas</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/web/">web</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how you can grab a document from the web using urllib.py.</p> Using DBI to access databases (Python) 2001-02-23T19:03:43-08:00Gisle Aashttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/98047/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52197-using-dbi-to-access-databases/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 52197 by <a href="/recipes/users/98047/">Gisle Aas</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/database/">database</a>). </p> <p>The pyperl dist provide an interface to the Perl DBI (dbi.py). This allow direct access to all the perl supported databases from python. Full documentation of the API from 'perldoc DBI' or the ORA "Programming the Perl DBI" book, by A. Descartes and T. Bunce.</p> Grab a document from the web (Python) 2001-02-23T18:52:07-08:00Gisle Aashttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/98047/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52195-grab-a-document-from-the-web/ <p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 52195 by <a href="/recipes/users/98047/">Gisle Aas</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/web/">web</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how you can get perl to do the dirty work. You might also consider looking at the urllib module.</p>