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November 20th, 2003, 09:27 PM

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Ok im tring to code this dictionary search program.. but its not fully working for me

from what i see if the url has an = sign then it wont work it will just open a regular explorer window.. now it i was to remove it.. then my progrom works and it will be transferring to the url

does anyone knows why??? this only happends on windows.. tested it on linux and works like a charm.. here is the part of my code that its messing up on windows..

Code:

search = self.entry.get()
		os.system("explorer http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q="+search)

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any idea.. the only problem is the equal sign

November 21st, 2003, 06:35 AM

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Mmm

this isnt how i'd choose to get the contents of a webpage X, you should look at the urllib module i.e.

Code:

import urllib

param = urllib.urlencode({'sourceid': 'navclient', 'q': seach})
page = urllib.urlopen('http://www.google.com/seach', params)

print page.read(), page.info() #more data available

Its a little longer i'll give you but it is very cross platform and of course Pythonic.. this wont work with google since they've blocked automated systems

But use PyGoogle, its easy to use! it gives you allot more controle than your gonna get using urllib and regex!

http://diveintomark.org/projects/pygoogle/

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November 21st, 2003, 12:09 PM

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This is a bad idea from a security standpoint too

Code:

search = self.entry.get()
os.system("explorer http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q="+search)

At the very minimum, you should urlencode search, otherwise people can input something like:
bogus; rm -rf /

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November 21st, 2003, 03:10 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by Scorpions4ever
This is a bad idea from a security standpoint too

Code:

search = self.entry.get() os.system("explorer http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q="+search)

At the very minimum, you should urlencode search, otherwise people can input something like:
bogus; rm -rf /

hehe i wont even dare to code something like this on linux :P this code is being ran on winblows

btw.. sorry i didnt mean to post the google page

see i was creating a dictionary search program

just added google for testing to see if it wold work or not.. and for got to replace it with the correct url

Last edited by xlordt : November 21st, 2003 at 03:14 PM.

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