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Old May 17th, 2006, 11:13 AM   #15
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Okay. It all appears fairly straightforward. The only real problem is the bullet-pointed list, though there may be a way of handling that in a macro, or with some special formatting. Python and Beautiful Soup are fairly good tools for tackling screen scraping like this. This problem seems interesting, so I'll knock up a few examples to set you on the right track when I get home from work in around an hour's time.

Meanwhile, you can download Python and have a play with it. Python's a programming language that's reasonably easy to get to grips with (as programming languages go). There's quite a few tutorials for beginners listed on the Python site, and the interactive interpreter is a good way to experiment with what goes where.

At the end of the day, your task is a limited one, and therefore to know all the functionality of Python is not required. That said, it's not a bad idea to get familiar with the basics, especially since they might serve you well in future.
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