scrape url out of brackets?

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any idea how to scrape a url out of a file? for instance if i want to
scrape out the href at the end which is "www.cnn.com" is there a way to
do it?

<tr class="rulesbody"><td width="183" class="rulesbody"><a
href="www.cnn.com">

[Mike Meyer]

ho***********@gmail.com writes:

any idea how to scrape a url out of a file? for instance if i want to
scrape out the href at the end which is "www.cnn.com" is there a way to
do it?
<tr class="rulesbody"><td width="183" class="rulesbody"><a
href="www.cnn.com">

BeautifulSoup.

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[Ravi Teja]

Regular Expressions are the most common way.
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html

HTML parser is another
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-htmllib.html

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so you recommend using some sort of for statement with the html parser
where i tell it to only parse stuff found in the <tr> tag for instance?

Ravi Teja wrote:

Regular Expressions are the most common way.
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html

HTML parser is another
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-htmllib.html

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so here is the syntax folks!!!

for anchor in soup.fetch('a', {'target': '_blank'}):
print anchor['href']

ho***********@gmail.com wrote:

so you recommend using some sort of for statement with the html parser
where i tell it to only parse stuff found in the <tr> tag for instance?

Ravi Teja wrote:

Regular Expressions are the most common way.
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html

HTML parser is another
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-htmllib.html