Hi,
I have a html file that I need to process and it contains text in this
format:
<TD><SPAN class=xf id=EmployeeNo
title="Employee Number">0123456 </SPAN></TD></TR>
(Note split over two lines is as it appears in the source file.)
I would like to use Python (or anything else really) to have it all on one
line i.e.
<TD><SPAN class=xf id=EmployeeNo title="Employee
Number">0123456 </SPAN></TD></TR>
(Note this has wrapped to the 2nd line)
Reason I would like to do this is so it is easier to pull back the
information from the file, I am interested in the contents of the title=
field and the data immediately after the > (in this case 0123456). I have
a basic Python program I have written to handle this however with the
script in its current format it goes wrong when its split over a line like
my first example.
Hope this all makes sense.
Any help appreciated.
7  3075 
Paramjit Oberoi wrote: I have a html file that I need to process and it contains text in this
format:
Try:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=HT...2.05.55.384482
40hotmail.com&r num=1
(or search c.l.p for "HTMLPrinte r")
Thanks, I forgot to mention I am new to Python so I dont yet know how to use
that example :(
>> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=HT...ail.com&rnum=1
(or search c.l.p for "HTMLPrinte r")
Thanks, I forgot to mention I am new to Python so I dont yet know how to
use that example :(
Python has a HTMLParser module in the standard library: http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-HTMLParser.html http://www.python.org/doc/lib/htmlparser-example.html
It looks complicated if you are new to all this, but it's fairly simple
really. Using it is much better than dealing with HTML syntax yourself.
A small example:
--------------------------------------------------
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
class MyHTMLParser(HT MLParser):
def handle_starttag (self, tag, attrs):
print "Encountere d the beginning of a %s tag" % tag
def handle_endtag(s elf, tag):
print "Encountere d the end of a %s tag" % tag
my_parser=MyHTM LParser()
html_data = """
<html>
<head>
<title>hi</title>
</head>
<body> hi </body>
</html>
"""
my_parser.feed( html_data)
--------------------------------------------------
will produce the result:
Encountered the beginning of a html tag
Encountered the beginning of a head tag
Encountered the beginning of a title tag
Encountered the end of a title tag
Encountered the end of a head tag
Encountered the beginning of a body tag
Encountered the end of a body tag
Encountered the end of a html tag
You'll be able to figure out the rest using the
documentation and some experimentation .
HTH,
-param
Paramjit Oberoi wrote: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=HT...ail.com&rnum=1
(or search c.l.p for "HTMLPrinte r")
Thanks, I forgot to mention I am new to Python so I dont yet know how to
use that example :(
Python has a HTMLParser module in the standard library:
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-HTMLParser.html
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/htmlparser-example.html
It looks complicated if you are new to all this, but it's fairly simple
really. Using it is much better than dealing with HTML syntax yourself.
A small example:
--------------------------------------------------
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
class MyHTMLParser(HT MLParser):
def handle_starttag (self, tag, attrs):
print "Encountere d the beginning of a %s tag" % tag
def handle_endtag(s elf, tag):
print "Encountere d the end of a %s tag" % tag
my_parser=MyHTM LParser()
html_data = """
<html>
<head>
<title>hi</title>
</head>
<body> hi </body>
</html>
"""
my_parser.feed( html_data)
--------------------------------------------------
will produce the result:
Encountered the beginning of a html tag
Encountered the beginning of a head tag
Encountered the beginning of a title tag
Encountered the end of a title tag
Encountered the end of a head tag
Encountered the beginning of a body tag
Encountered the end of a body tag
Encountered the end of a html tag
You'll be able to figure out the rest using the
documentation and some experimentation .
HTH,
-param
Thank you!! that was just the kind of help I was
looking for.
Best regards
Rigga
RiGGa wrote: Paramjit Oberoi wrote:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=HT...ail.com&rnum=1
(or search c.l.p for "HTMLPrinte r")
Thanks, I forgot to mention I am new to Python so I dont yet know how to
use that example :(
Python has a HTMLParser module in the standard library:
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-HTMLParser.html
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/htmlparser-example.html
It looks complicated if you are new to all this, but it's fairly simple
really. Using it is much better than dealing with HTML syntax yourself.
A small example:
--------------------------------------------------
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
class MyHTMLParser(HT MLParser):
print "Encountere d the beginning of a %s tag" % tag
def handle_endtag(s elf, tag):
print "Encountere d the end of a %s tag" % tag
my_parser=MyHTM LParser()
html_data = """
<html>
<head>
<title>hi</title>
</head>
<body> hi </body>
</html>
"""
my_parser.feed( html_data)
--------------------------------------------------
will produce the result:
Encountered the beginning of a html tag
Encountered the beginning of a head tag
Encountered the beginning of a title tag
Encountered the end of a title tag
Encountered the end of a head tag
Encountered the beginning of a body tag
Encountered the end of a body tag
Encountered the end of a html tag
You'll be able to figure out the rest using the
documentation and some experimentation .
HTH,
-param
Thank you!! that was just the kind of help I was
looking for.
Best regards
Rigga
I have just tried your example exacly as you typed
it (copy and paste) and I get a syntax error everytime
I run it, it always fails at the line starting:
def handle_starttag (self, tag, attrs):
And the error message shown in the command line is:
DeprecationWarn ing: Non-ASCII character '\xa0'
What does this mean?
Many thanks
R
RiGGa wrote: RiGGa wrote:
Paramjit Oberoi wrote:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=HT...ail.com&rnum=1>
> (or search c.l.p for "HTMLPrinte r")
Thanks, I forgot to mention I am new to Python so I dont yet know how
to use that example :(
Python has a HTMLParser module in the standard library:
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-HTMLParser.html
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/htmlparser-example.html
It looks complicated if you are new to all this, but it's fairly simple
really. Using it is much better than dealing with HTML syntax yourself.
A small example:
--------------------------------------------------
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
class MyHTMLParser(HT MLParser):
print "Encountere d the beginning of a %s tag" % tag
def handle_endtag(s elf, tag):
print "Encountere d the end of a %s tag" % tag
my_parser=MyHTM LParser()
html_data = """
<html>
<head>
<title>hi</title>
</head>
<body> hi </body>
</html>
"""
my_parser.feed( html_data)
--------------------------------------------------
will produce the result:
Encountered the beginning of a html tag
Encountered the beginning of a head tag
Encountered the beginning of a title tag
Encountered the end of a title tag
Encountered the end of a head tag
Encountered the beginning of a body tag
Encountered the end of a body tag
Encountered the end of a html tag
You'll be able to figure out the rest using the
documentation and some experimentation .
HTH,
-param
Thank you!! that was just the kind of help I was
looking for.
Best regards
Rigga
I have just tried your example exacly as you typed
it (copy and paste) and I get a syntax error everytime
I run it, it always fails at the line starting:
def handle_starttag (self, tag, attrs):
And the error message shown in the command line is:
DeprecationWarn ing: Non-ASCII character '\xa0'
What does this mean?
Many thanks
R
Ignore that, I retyped it manually and it now works, must have been a hidden
chatracter that my IDE didnt like.
Thanks again for your help, no doubt I will post back later with more
questions :)
Thanks
R
RiGGa wrote: I have just tried your example exacly as you typed
it (copy and paste) and I get a syntax error everytime
I run it, it always fails at the line starting:
def handle_starttag (self, tag, attrs):
And the error message shown in the command line is:
DeprecationWarn ing: Non-ASCII character '\xa0'
What does this mean?
You get a deprecation warning when your source code contains non-ascii
characters and you have no encoding declared (read the PEP for details).
Those characters have a different meaning depending on the encoding, which
makes the code ambiguous.
However, what's really going on in your case is that (some) space characters
in the source code were replaced by chr(160), which happens sometimes with
newsgroup postings for reasons unknown to me. What makes that nasty is that
chr(160) looks just like the normal space character.
If you run the following from the command line with a space after python
(replace xxx.py with the source file and yyy.py with the name of the new
cleaned-up file), Paramjit's code should work as expected.
python-c'file("yyy.py" ,"w").write(fil e("xxx.py").rea d().replace(chr (160),chr(32))) '
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