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retrieves and prints the national debt and us population
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| from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup | |
| import urllib2 | |
| page = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np') | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(page) | |
| debt = soup.find('table',{'class':'data1'}).findAll('td')[3].text | |
| asof = soup.find('table',{'class':'data1'}).findAll('td')[0].text | |
| population_url = 'http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html' | |
| population_page = urllib2.urlopen(population_url) | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(population_page) | |
| population = soup.find('span',{'id':'usclocknum'}).text | |
| debt_amount = float(debt.replace(',','')) | |
| population_amount = int(population.replace(',','')) | |
| per_person = debt_amount / population_amount | |
| print "US National debt as of %s is %s, or %.2f for each person(%s) in the US" % (asof, debt,per_person,population) |
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Change those "text" statements to "contents" and it works perfectly.