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Example of how to extract a link in Python using only the find() function
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| page ='<div id="top_bin"><div id="top_content" class="width960"><div class="udacity float-left"><a href="http://www.xkcd.com">' | |
| start_link = page.find('<a href=') | |
| start_quote = page.find('"', start_link) | |
| end_quote = page.find('"', start_quote+1) | |
| url = page[start_quote+1:end_quote] |
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