Importing data from the online L-functions and modular forms database

[Andreas Holmstrom]

I would like to import (into my SageMathCloud notebook) files like this:

http://www.lmfdb.org/L/EllipticCurve/Q/11.a/?download=lcalcfile

(For now I am interested in importing just a single file, not all the lcalcfiles in the database!)

Preferably I would like to write something like this:

load urllib2.urlopen(http://www.lmfdb.org/L/EllipticCurve/Q/11.a/?download=lcalcfile)

and then have access to the variables defined in that file, but I don't know the syntax here.

Gratful for any help. I'm not an experienced programmer, so if you have an answer, please answer in some detail.

[Harald Schilly]

There is a lmfdb mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lmdb - maybe you should ask there.

Unfortunately, lcalc has no standard format. I once talked to Mike Rubinstein about this and suggested him to use yaml for the file format. Don't know if anything in that direction happened, though. Therefore, I assume you have to write your own parser.

Harald