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OPS435 Python Assignment 3

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==Overview==
As most system administrators, you would like to offer email notification to your users based on the event that triggers it. In a school environment, classes may be cancelled in a daily basis and the classes being cancelled may be posted to a web site and it is up to the students to check it out. If you do not check the class cancellation web site before heading to your class room, you may be disappointed when you get there and find out that your class has been cancelled. It would be nice if you can get an email send to you for any class cancellation will trigger an email to be sent to those taking before you leave home for the class and avoid frustration. You want For this assignment, you are going to write a script to poll data from the class cancellation web site (any given web site, but you can use the web page [https://scs.senecac.on.ca/~raymond.chan/ops435/a3/ccn.html here] for testing purpose) and send an email to any body subscribe to you email notification service ( a sample subscription web page [https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/OPS435_Python_A3_CCN_Subscription here] that their classes have been cancelled. == Instruction == === Program Name and valid command line arguments ===Name your Python3 script as <code>ccn_[student_id].py</code>. Create a symbolic link to your script as ccn.py (e.g. use the command ln -s ccn_rchan.py ccn.py to create the link) so that you can refer to your script as ccn.py. Your script must accept one or more "web site" as its command line parameters and other optional parameters as shown below. Your python script should produce the following usage text when run with the --help option:<pre>[rchan@centos7 a1]$ python3 ./ccn.py -husage: ccn.py [-h] [-n CCN ] F [F ...] Class Cancellation Notification  positional arguments: F list of CCN subscription web pages optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -c , --class USER Class Cancellation web site -v, --verbose tune on output verbosity Copyright 2018 - Raymond Chan </pre>Replace the last line with your own full name   If there is one CCN subscription web page provided at the command line, read the subscription list from the given web page. The format of. If there is more than one CCN subscription web page provided, merge all the subscription list with the first one at the top and the last one at the bottom. Read and process the subscription list in that order in your program.
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