[moneydance] python modules urllib

[Patrick Wagstrom]

Brock Palen wrote:
> Is there a way to get all the python modules in money dance?
> I was making a script that grabs TIAA-CREF daily values form their  
> website, but when i try to run it under moneydance i get
> 
> importError: no module named urllib
> 
> etc, so i cant scrape their website,  I am new to python (perl is my  
> comfort zone) so if I am missing something forgive my ignorance.
> How do others get daily values of TIAA-CREF variable annuities?

The problem is that you're not really programming in Python, rather what 
you're using is Jython, a java based implementation of python.  While 
the syntax is the same, many of the standard libraries that ship with 
cpython are not available.  Fortunately, you can use Java libraries in 
the same way you'd use cpython libraries.  For example:

import javax.swing

Will give you access to the swing widgets.  So, it's a matter of looking 
up some of the stuff on how to handle URLs in java and then calling the 
Java methods.

--Patrick