# L-6 MCS 275 Mon 25 Jan 2010 : getwebdata.py

# The script below gets information about earthquakes in cvs format.
# We read the data and copy into the file "quakes.cvs".

u = "http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/gis/qed.asc"

from urllib import urlopen

infile = urlopen(u,'r')
outfile = open("quakes.cvs",'w')
while True:
   s = infile.readline()
   if s == "": break
   outfile.write(s)
infile.close()
outfile.close()