Read a webfile and sum the numbers in the table

wk4assign1.py

# Note - this code must run in Python 2.x and you must download
# http://www.pythonlearn.com/code/BeautifulSoup.py
# Into the same folder as this program
# http://www.dr-chuck.com/page1.htm
# Week 4 Assignment Sample is defined
# Author Don lovett  Based on Code from Using Python to Access Web Data text by Charles Severance
import re
import urllib
from BeautifulSoup import *

#url = raw_input('Enter - ')
url = 'http://python-data.dr-chuck.net/comments_42.html'
html = urllib.urlopen(url).read()

soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
nums = list()
# Retrieve all of the anchor tags
tags = soup('span')
for tag in tags:
    # Look at the parts of a tag
    #print 'TAG:',tag
    #print 'URL:',tag.get('href', None)
    print 'Contents:',tag.contents[0]
    x = re.findall('([0-9]+)', tag.contents[0])
    if len(x) > 0 :
        val = int(x[0])
        nums.append(val)

print len(nums)
print sum(nums)

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