from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from mechanize import Browser
import urllib2
import sys,re
if len(sys.argv) == 0:
print "\nSyntax: python %s 'distribution title'" % (sys.argv[0])
exit()
else :
distribution = '+'.join(sys.argv[1].split())
try:
br = Browser()
br.open("http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution="+distribution)
br.response().read()
print br.title()
url = br.geturl()
content = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
except urllib2.URLError :
print "Unable to connect to internet !! OR not connected to internet !!"
else :
soup=BeautifulSoup(content)
try :
title = soup.find("h1").contents[0].strip()
print "DISTRIBUTION:",title
ul = soup.findAll("ul")
li = soup.ul.findAll("li")
for i in li:
print("{} {}.".format(i.b.text,"".join([a.text for a in i.findAll("a")])))
except:
print("Link not found Distribution name ERROR")
