http web fetch question

[grocery_stocker]

Say I have a script that fetches data from a website every hour. Is
there a general solution or is the solution operating system specific?

 

[Philip Semanchuk]

Say I have a script that fetches data from a website every hour. Is
there a general solution or is the solution operating system specific?

It's not OS-specific. See the Python standard library modules urllib,
urllib2, or just run a command line utility like wget or curl.

 

[Chris Rebert]

Say I have a script that fetches data from a website every hour. Is
there a general solution or is the solution operating system specific?

WRT the periodic operation part of your task, there's the `sched`
module -- http://docs.python.org/library/sched.html

Cheers,
Chris

 

[grocery_stocker]

WRT the periodic operation part of your task, there's the `sched`
module --http://docs.python.org/library/sched.html

Maybe I'm being a tad bit dense here, but I don't see how this
schedule mod can be used to fetch data from a website every hour for
10 hours straight and why this is different than using something like
time.sleep().