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Posted by mbstevens on 10/03/06 23:47
On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:22:24 -0600, Arthur Rhodes wrote:
> The problem is that the descriptions I need to copy are embedded in
> complex pages, with nested tables, etc. Simply copying the page source
> doesn't seem to be that useful. I end up having to cut out lots of table
> code, etc., and usually make mistakes that are time consuming to figure
> out and fix.
Perl's HTML::Parser module will divide an HTML document into its various
parts (including text) with just a few lines of code. In the more
structured Python world, sgmllib, htmllib, or HTMLParser are the modules
to look into.
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mbstevens
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