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at November 4, 2009 12:41 by taec
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import os
import urllib2
import sys
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

bbcurl = "http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/fixtures/default.stm"

doc = urllib2.urlopen(bbcurl).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(doc)
mvbs = soup.findAll('div', { 'class' : 'mvb' })

for mvb in mvbs:
    if mvb.b:
        date = mvb.b.contents
    else:
        mvb = mvb.findNext('span')
        home = mvb.a.contents
        mvb = mvb.findNext('span')
        away = str(mvb.a.contents)

        print "DATE %s %s vs %s" % (date, home, away)
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Needs the BeautifulSoup module.

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Download premiership fixtures  from BBC

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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python

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Python