import urllib2 def scrape(url): print "Scraping %s" % url if -1 != url.find("file://"): f = open(url.replace("file://", ""), "r") content = f.read() f.close() return content else: response = urllib2.urlopen(url) html = response.read() return html def pdftoxml(pdfcontent, options): return pdfcontent def swimport(scrapername): return None