newbie question

[John]

I'm working with the HTMLParser module and have implemented
HTMLParser.handle_starttag() and I see there is a separate
handle_data
method (which can be implemented), but I am not clear how to tie this
together with a given start tag, so I only get the data I want.

For example, I'd like to get a handle on the character data ( the
number 1) immediately after the following start tag
<span class="calPast">
1</br>
..
..
..
Any ideas?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:35:58 -0300, John <my*****@gmail.comescribió:

I'm working with the HTMLParser module and have implemented
HTMLParser.handle_starttag() and I see there is a separate
handle_data
method (which can be implemented), but I am not clear how to tie this
together with a given start tag, so I only get the data I want.

For example, I'd like to get a handle on the character data ( the
number 1) immediately after the following start tag
<span class="calPast">
1</br>
.
.
.
Any ideas?

I usually don't recommend HTMLParser because a lot of HTML documents in
the Web are not even remotely valid, and the parser can't handle that.
BeautifulSoup is a more robust alternative:
<http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/>
--
Gabriel Genellina

[John]

Thanks for the tip!