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This script is a simple example of Python's urllib2 built-in function, and illustrates how easy it is to use network functionality directly in Python


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You can try this from home! Paste this script into a file (such as getimg.py) and if you have installed a Python interpreter (on Mac or Linux you're all set already, Windows you will have to install Python) you can run this script.
 
You can try this from home! Paste this script into a file (such as getimg.py) and if you have installed a Python interpreter you can run this script. On Mac OS or Linux you probably have Python already, those on Windows you will have to install Python (from http://python.org)

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Template:GetURL.py header

This script is a simple example of Python's urllib2 built-in function, and illustrates how easy it is to use network functionality directly in Python

import urllib2
cnt=0
for line in urllib2.urlopen('http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page'):
    cnt += line.count('<img src')
print cnt


You can try this from home! Paste this script into a file (such as getimg.py) and if you have installed a Python interpreter you can run this script. On Mac OS or Linux you probably have Python already, those on Windows you will have to install Python (from http://python.org)