import sys,os sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__) or '.', '../')) import genericScrapers import scrape from bs4 import BeautifulSoup #http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/abc/ class ScraperImplementation(genericScrapers.GenericOAICDisclogScraper): def getColumnCount(self): return 7 def getColumns(self,columns): (id, date, title, description,link,deldate,notes) = columns return (id, date, title, description, notes) if __name__ == '__main__': print 'Subclass:', issubclass(ScraperImplementation, genericScrapers.GenericOAICDisclogScraper) print 'Instance:', isinstance(ScraperImplementation(), genericScrapers.GenericOAICDisclogScraper) ScraperImplementation().doScrape()