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Phone numbers aren’t supposed to be written in scientific notation

I wanted to parse an HTML page containing a table and import it into a MySQL table in an automated way. Upon my friend Kumar’s advice, I came to know about Beautiful Soup. Today was the day to explore Beautiful Soup. Being new to python, I had to do a bit of python reading side-by-side. Finally, I was able to successfully pass an HTML file to my script and get a CSV output.

f = open("input_file.html","r")
g = open("outfile_file.csv,"w")
soup = BeautifulSoup(f)
t = soup.findAll('table')
for table in t:
    rows = table.findAll('tr')
    for tr in rows:
        cols = tr.findAll('td')
        for td in cols:
            g.write(td.find(text=True))
            g.write(",")
        g.write("\n")

This script parses a simple HTML table without looking for any special tags or anything. Now that this is working, I have to make this more stronger and parse an uglier table, my task for tomorrow.

This was one of the shots that I took.

After a bit of GIMPing (mostly along the lines of this), I managed to get the photo to look like this.

I was impressed with the result. So, I decided to take one of mine also. That resulted in this.

Step 1

Check whether the rewrite module for your apache is enabled. Assuming you have an apache2 installation, you can do this by

ls /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/


If you don’t find rewrite.load, it means that the rewrite module is not enabled. Drupal’s clean URLs feature requires this module to be enabled. If you have a Debian based machine,

sudo a2enmod

Which module would you like to enable?
Your choices are: actions alias asis auth_basic auth_digest authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authnz_ldap authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cern_meta cgid cgi charset_lite dav_fs dav dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache dump_io env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info ldap log_forensic mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation php5 proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_ftp proxy_http proxy rewrite setenvif speling ssl status suexec unique_id userdir usertrack version vhost_alias
Module name?rewrite
Module rewrite installed; run /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload to enable.

This can also be done like this (say for a non-Debian based OS):

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
sudo ln -s ../mods-available/rewrite.load rewrite.load

There! We have enabled the rewrite module for apache.

Step 2

We have to edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. Look out for the following lines.

<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny

Change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All. Save the File.

Step 3

Make sure that the .htaccess file under your Drupal installation folder has the following lines

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Step 4

Restart the apache server

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Step 5

Go to your Drupal administration page for clean URLs and enable them.

My first Chitraveena Concert

I was accompanied by Pakala Sri. Jayaprakash on the violin and Varun Ramakrishna on the Mridangam. Main piece of the concert was mahAlakshmi jaganmAtA in shankarAbharaNam, a composition of Papanasam Sivan.

I felt happy after the concert but with a small feeling of I could have done better.

I must also thank my gurus for their encouragement and all that they have taught to me. I hope to improve as time progresses.

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