Thai election ID checking

korakot (Korakot Chaovavanich) — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:30:32 GMT

The online service here aims to help people
check where they are to vote. However, it can be
used as ID certification as well.



# nnnn is the id to be checked

http://www.dopa.go.th/cgi-bin/inqelect.sh?pid=nnnn

Here I make it into a function call.



import urllib, re

def getname(id):

  url = 'http://www.dopa.go.th/cgi-bin/inqelect.sh?pid=' + str(id)

  src = urllib.urlopen(url).read()

  pat = '

DZone Snippets: election code

Thai election ID checking

`(.?) *<' name = re.findall(pat, src)[0] # don't use other info return name print getname(5100900050063) # show a name (one of my relatives)`

DZone Snippets: election code

Thai election ID checking

*(.*?) *<' name = re.findall(pat, src)[0] # don't use other info return name print getname(5100900050063) # show a name (one of my relatives)

`(.?) *<' name = re.findall(pat, src)[0] # don't use other info return name print getname(5100900050063) # show a name (one of my relatives)`