RPICourses A data scraping library to read course data from RPI
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RPICourses is a simple Python library for reading and using RPI's course schedule. This has been extracted from YACS.It can parse the XML files provided on RPI's SIS system and provides a primitive object-oriented API layer to access the course information.Also, it provides rudimentary method to computing schedules using constraints.UsageTo install: pip install rpi_coursesThen you can import it to your python scripts:: from rpi_courses import CourseCatalog, list_xml_fileslist_xml_files accepts an optional URL argument, the default url is assumed to be "http://sis.rpi.edu/reg/rocs/". This function expects to read an apache-style file listing page. It scrapes all the files listed there that end with a xml file extension and returns the full URLs to those files: >>> files = list_xml_files() >>> files Product's homepage

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