Aug-22-2018, 03:48 AM
ok, posted on the wrong thread. no, it's not homework, as in I'm going to a school, homework.
Sorry.
What I do have is my current excel vba project that relies on a web query in a certain way, and it loops query after query after query, hands free everything. The logic is mine, taken over 15 years to get it right.
All I want is to test the query using Python, send it to a txt, and I will chnage VBA to query the text file as if it was the web page.
Reason, because soon vba won't be able to, due to web page changes.
Once I see it in Python,what the data looks like, and if it is even possible to get the exact same info/scrape then I can decide to commit.
I don't see why I need to go through volumes and volumes and volumes of reading, just to understand basic syntaxes for this interim tire kick.
Not all of us really want to become engineers, we just want our hobby projects to work on from where the IT has progressed.
FYI, I have some brilliant complex calculators all relying on real time info. They still work, IF the info can still get to it. But that data technology has become dinosaur and the program is written in assembly. Bullet proof to say the least.
The programmer sold me the entire program, source code and compiler and retired at an ripe old age.
This is where I hope to commit, if I can just get the real time data, see it, see what it looks like from the particular web pages, ( used to come from data sources before the internet, pre- 1998).
So don't tell me I'm "lazy", your fears really are the architects, those who can think ideas for you to code.
Sorry.
What I do have is my current excel vba project that relies on a web query in a certain way, and it loops query after query after query, hands free everything. The logic is mine, taken over 15 years to get it right.
All I want is to test the query using Python, send it to a txt, and I will chnage VBA to query the text file as if it was the web page.
Reason, because soon vba won't be able to, due to web page changes.
Once I see it in Python,what the data looks like, and if it is even possible to get the exact same info/scrape then I can decide to commit.
I don't see why I need to go through volumes and volumes and volumes of reading, just to understand basic syntaxes for this interim tire kick.
Not all of us really want to become engineers, we just want our hobby projects to work on from where the IT has progressed.
FYI, I have some brilliant complex calculators all relying on real time info. They still work, IF the info can still get to it. But that data technology has become dinosaur and the program is written in assembly. Bullet proof to say the least.
The programmer sold me the entire program, source code and compiler and retired at an ripe old age.
This is where I hope to commit, if I can just get the real time data, see it, see what it looks like from the particular web pages, ( used to come from data sources before the internet, pre- 1998).
So don't tell me I'm "lazy", your fears really are the architects, those who can think ideas for you to code.