#Practice Code: James Troost import urllib import re def getname(): s = input("File name: ") return s def getext(filename): return filename[filename.index(".") + 1 : len(filename)] def getstart(extension): return extension[0 : 1] def getsource(weblink): return urllib.urlopen(weblink) filename = getname() extension = getext(filename) first = getstart(extension) print "Extension: " + extension + "\n" regex = r'"_blank">' + extension.upper() + '</a></td>.*\n.*<td>(.+?)</td>' cregex = re.compile(regex) weblink = "http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5E" + first.upper() websource = getsource(weblink) htmltext = websource.read() description = re.findall(cregex,htmltext) print "Source:" + weblink + "\n" print "Your file is one of the following:" for words in description: print "\nA(n)" + words + "\n"
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