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+# getNTPservers.py
+#
+# Demonstration of the parsing module, implementing a HTML page scanner,
+# to extract a list of NTP time servers from the NIST web site.
+#
+# Copyright 2004, by Paul McGuire
+#
+from pyparsing import Word, Combine, Suppress, CharsNotIn, nums
+import urllib
+
+integer = Word(nums)
+ipAddress = Combine( integer + "." + integer + "." + integer + "." + integer )
+tdStart = Suppress("<td>")
+tdEnd = Suppress("</td>")
+timeServerPattern =  tdStart + ipAddress.setResultsName("ipAddr") + tdEnd + \
+        tdStart + CharsNotIn("<").setResultsName("loc") + tdEnd
+
+# get list of time servers
+nistTimeServerURL = "http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/time-servers.html"
+serverListPage = urllib.urlopen( nistTimeServerURL )
+serverListHTML = serverListPage.read()
+serverListPage.close()
+
+addrs = {}
+for srvr,startloc,endloc in timeServerPattern.scanString( serverListHTML ):
+    print srvr.ipAddr, "-", srvr.loc
+    addrs[srvr.ipAddr] = srvr.loc
+    # or do this:
+    #~ addr,loc = srvr
+    #~ print addr, "-", loc