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MaplePrimes - comments on Post, Baby Names - Continued http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/38177-Baby-Names--Continued en-us 2026 Maplesoft, A Division of Waterloo Maple Inc. Maplesoft Document System Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:17:20 GMT Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:17:20 GMT The latest comments added to the Post, Baby Names - Continued http://www.mapleprimes.com/images/mapleprimeswhite.jpg MaplePrimes - comments on Post, Baby Names - Continued http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/38177-Baby-Names--Continued In Python http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/38177-Baby-Names--Continued?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Baby Names - Continued:Comments#comment68350 Now, compare that with getting the html page in Python. Say, in Python 2.6, <pre> >>> from urllib import * >>> par = urlencode({'year':2000, 'top':20, 'number':'n'}) >>> f = urlopen("http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi", par) >>> print f.read() </pre> Alec The latest comments added to the Post, Baby Names - Continued 68350 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:40:23 Z alec alec re-usable functions http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/38177-Baby-Names--Continued?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Baby Names - Continued:Comments#comment82397 The reason that it looks shorter in python is because someone's already written its functions urlencode, urlopen, etc. So one might reasonably ask how hard it would be to write the equivalent functions in maple, so as not to have to type all that out like John did. That's how to use Maple effectively -- to write re-usable procedures for repeating queries. Also possible is to distribute them (as the python community does) for others to use. For example, are the undocumented HTTP:-Post and HTTP:-URLEncode close, or do they require changes in order to do this task? acer The latest comments added to the Post, Baby Names - Continued 82397 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:16:37 Z acer acer HTTP:-URLEncode http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/38177-Baby-Names--Continued?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Baby Names - Continued:Comments#comment68348 HTTP:-URLEncode does something different - it converts spaces to %20 etc. - similar to what I did in my other blog post, <a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/blog/alec/accessing-magma-from-maple">Accessing MAGMA from Maple</a>. For example, <pre> HTTP:-URLEncode("year=2000&top=20&number=n"); "year%3D2000%26top%3D20%26number%3Dn" </pre> which is useless in this case. While urlencode in Python takes a dictionary - which is a hash-table similar to table in Maple, and writes it as a string, 'top=20&number=n&year=2000' in this example. It's hard to tell exactly what HTTP:-Post does without documentation, because it refers to some other procedures from the HTTP module, and I hate to look through long code without comments. Trying to use it as in Python gives <pre> HTTP:-Post("http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi", "year=2000&top=20&number=n"); 200, "" </pre> which means that the post was successful (code 200 means OK), but the response seems to be lost during processing - perhaps, the problem is caused by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding">chunked transfer-encoding</a> of the response, for which the HTTP module seems to be missing the procedures. Alec PS Since developer(s) of the HTTP module didn't respond in the previous thread on this topic, cited somewhere in the Baby Names thread, he/she/they, probably, won't respond here as well. -Alec The latest comments added to the Post, Baby Names - Continued 68348 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:13:08 Z alec alec (:-D ) http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/38177-Baby-Names--Continued?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Baby Names - Continued:Comments#comment68293 <maple></maple>(:-D ) The latest comments added to the Post, Baby Names - Continued 68293 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:59:11 Z McRaY_Math McRaY_Math