15-110: Principles of Computing - Week 10

Input and output from files

• Load a text file into a single string
• Load a text file into a list of strings
• Save a string to a text file

Example: fileIO.py

Web scraping and HTML generation

• Download a web page into a string
• Identify the location of relevant information in a web page:
  1. Find the appropriate line, using a text identifier that is present only in that line
  2. Find a left delimiter and a right delimiter for the information you want to get from that line
  3. Slice a substring between the two delimiters
• Use the information you scraped to generate your own HTML pages

Example: webScraping.py