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extract the price

You needed to update the program to extract the price starting at
the 235th character of the string. The price is four characters long
and stored in a variable called price.

import urllib.request

page = urllib.request.urlopen(“http://www.beans-r-us.biz/prices.html")
text = page.read().decode(“utf8")
You store the substring in price = text[234:238]
the “price" variable. print(price)

Now, instead of printing
“text" (the entire web The substring includes characters at indexes 234, 235,
page), you are just 236, and 237. Note how you’ve specified the substring
printing “price" (the with two index values, separated by the “:" character.
extracted substring).

238 is the second index value
used in the substring specification
because it is after the last
This is the HTML text This is the first character character to be extracted.
in the required substring,
leading up to the price.
at index 234.

Here it is: the substring to
extract and the current
price of coffee.

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