dropbox question

Hi pluggers!

I've installed dropbox on Linux. I get responses when I type dropbox
help, dropbox status, etc. It also says it is NOT running.

When I run dropbox start, it say run "dropbox start -i" to install the
daemon. I thought this would install dropboxd in memory.

But "dropbox start -i" tells me to download the "Dropbox proprietary
daemon", and then does a huge file transfer, without telling me what is
really happening, only a horizontal bar that shows % progress (not
actual size). And since it took minutes for it to reach 1%, I thought
these were unusually huge files, for software I thought I already
installed. So I canceled the transfer.

Any advice?

For context, the solution I am working on (Danny Ching, pls tell me
if I'm on the right track), is to save the Luzon load curve jpeg that I
can now properly generate (thanks to people here who helped out!), to a
directory which will be mirrored on Dropbox, and which will then be
shared with others interested in mirroring it on their servers.

Let me know also if this is a good solution or if there's a simpler one.

Here's another problem I already solved but it's an ugly klutz. NGCP
makes available the daily power supply status of Luzon (also Visayas
and Mindanao) at the url ngcp.ph/power_status.asp.

I get an html file and buried within it is the information I want
(Luzon MW capacity for the day).

I'm looking for a more resilient and simpler way. if any, than the
Python code below. It's a klutz, I know. The slightest change could
break it. I tried Beautiful Soup but I can't seem to install it
properly due to dependency problems that couldn't be resolved.

Greetings to all,

Obet

Extracting Luzon MW capacity from the html file returned by
ngcp.ph/power_status.asp:


from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

class HeadingParser(HTMLParser):
	
	inHeading = False
	prevdata = 'xxx'
	done = False
	capacity = []
	
	def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
		if tag == 'td' or tag=='p':
			self.inHeading = True
			
	def handle_data(self, data):
		if self.inHeading:
			'''
			if not data.strip().isdigit(): print '\n'+
data , else: print ', '+data.strip() ,
			'''
			if not self.done:
self.capacity.append(data.strip()) if 'System Peak' in data: self.done
= True 
	def handle_endtag(self, tag):
		if  tag == 'td' or tag=='p':
			self.inHeading = False
			

def daysupply_asof():
	hParser = HeadingParser()
	f = open('ngcp.dat')
	html = f.read()
	f.close()
	hParser.feed(html)
	when = hParser.capacity[1].replace(',',' ').replace(')',
	'').split() 
	return ' '.join([when[7], when[5], when[6], when[3], when[2]]),
	hParser.capacity[3]


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