messed up RE....i think

[Patrick C]

So I'm trying to just write a script that checks to see the national debt every minute for 3 minutes. (the time and duration is completely variable, im making up these tests for me to learn on)...

So the script I have, which I've written by cutting and pasting from previous questions i've had answered and from what i've found on python.org, yields "None," rather than 3 gigantic debt figures.

Can someone help me (i'm using Windows XP on python 2.5) find where I've gone arwy...
thanks a lot...

PC

>>> def debtcheck():
...     webpage = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/')
...     results2 = webpage.read()
...     total_debt = re.compile('<TR><TD ALIGN=center><IMG SRC="debtiv.gif" WIDTH=399 HEIGHT=41 ALT=(.*?)</TD>',re.M|re.DOTALL)
...     debt_data = total_debt.findall(results)
...     
>>> import sched, time
>>> s=sched.scheduler(time.time, time.sleep)
>>> def print_debt():
...     s.enter(5, 1, debtcheck, ())
...     s.enter(65, 1, debtcheck, ())
...     s.enter(125, 1, debtcheck, ())
...     s.run()
...     
 
>>> def print_debt():
...     s.enter(5, 1, debtcheck, ())
...     s.enter(65, 1, debtcheck, ())
...     s.enter(125, 1, debtcheck, ())
...     s.run()
... 
>>> print print_debt()
None

[ghostdog74]

So I'm trying to just write a script that checks to see the national debt every minute for 3 minutes. (the time and duration is completely variable, im making up these tests for me to learn on)...

So the script I have, which I've written by cutting and pasting from previous questions i've had answered and from what i've found on python.org, yields "None," rather than 3 gigantic debt figures.

Can someone help me (i'm using Windows XP on python 2.5) find where I've gone arwy...
thanks a lot...

PC

>>> def debtcheck():
...     webpage = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/')
...     results2 = webpage.read()
...     total_debt = re.compile('<TR><TD ALIGN=center><IMG SRC="debtiv.gif" WIDTH=399 HEIGHT=41 ALT=(.*?)</TD>',re.M|re.DOTALL)
...     debt_data = total_debt.findall(results)
...     
>>> import sched, time
>>> s=sched.scheduler(time.time, time.sleep)
>>> def print_debt():
...     s.enter(5, 1, debtcheck, ())
...     s.enter(65, 1, debtcheck, ())
...     s.enter(125, 1, debtcheck, ())
...     s.run()
...     
 
>>> def print_debt():
...     s.enter(5, 1, debtcheck, ())
...     s.enter(65, 1, debtcheck, ())
...     s.enter(125, 1, debtcheck, ())
...     s.run()
... 
>>> print print_debt()
None

first look, you did not return any values in your debtcheck() function that's why you have None.. return debt_data in that function, and i think it should be fine.