update it to write packages to a text file

Codecs is needed for reading/writing unicode chars(range 128+) too.

scripts/pull_R_packages.py

@@ -7,17 +7,19 @@
 
 from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
 import urllib
+import codecs
 
-
+text_file = codecs.open("Packages.txt",encoding='utf-8',mode="w")
 d = pq(url='http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/MachineLearning.html',opener=lambda url, **kw: urllib.urlopen(url).read())
-index = 0
+
 for e in d("li").items():
 	package_name = e("a").html()
 	package_link = e("a")[0].attrib['href']
 	if '..' in package_link:
 		package_link = package_link.replace("..",'http://cran.r-project.org/web')
 		dd = pq(url=package_link,opener=lambda url, **kw: urllib.urlopen(url).read())
 		package_description = dd("h2").html()
-		print "* [%s](%s) - %s" % (package_name,package_link,package_description)
+		text_file.write(" [%s](%s) - %s \n" % (package_name,package_link,package_description))
+		# print "* [%s](%s) - %s" % (package_name,package_link,package_description)
 
-	index += 1
+	index += 1