Python: loop doing the same thing to one item n-times as opposed doing it once to n-items
Here is the example:
I am trying to grab a series of XML pages, and then extract data from them.  

It downloads each individual page, as the while loop was designed to do but the tester() function prints the data from the first file it downloads V number of times despite it downloading and clearing the file after each time it loops through.  

This is killing me what am I doing wrong? 

    def tester():
        with open('raw.txt') as myFile:
            test = linecache.getline('raw.txt', 12)
            print test
            test = ""
            myFile.close

    def grab_data(Year, rcvote):
        link = "XXX/%s/roll%s.xml" % (Year, rc)
        site = urllib2.urlopen(link)
        localFile = open('raw.txt', 'w')
        localFile.write(site.read(100000))
        localFile.close()
        tester()


    while (V !=0):
        rc = str(V)
        if (len(rc) == 2):
            rc = "0%s" % (rc)
        elif (len(rc) == 1):
            rc = "00%s" % (rc)
        else:
            rc = rc
        grab_data(Year, rc)
        V = V - 1
    


Python: loop doing the same thing to one item n-times as opposed doing it once to n-items
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Here is the example:
I am trying to grab a series of XML pages, and then extract data from them.  

It downloads each individual page, as the while loop was designed to do but the tester() function prints the data from the first file it downloads V number of times despite it downloading and clearing the file after each time it loops through.  

This is killing me what am I doing wrong? 

    def tester():
        with open('raw.txt') as myFile:
            test = linecache.getline('raw.txt', 12)
            print test
            test = ""
            myFile.close

    def grab_data(Year, rcvote):
        link = "XXX/%s/roll%s.xml" % (Year, rc)
        site = urllib2.urlopen(link)
        localFile = open('raw.txt', 'w')
        localFile.write(site.read(100000))
        localFile.close()
        tester()


    while (V !=0):
        rc = str(V)
        if (len(rc) == 2):
            rc = "0%s" % (rc)
        elif (len(rc) == 1):
            rc = "00%s" % (rc)
        else:
            rc = rc
        grab_data(Year, rc)
        V = V - 1
    

