is there a safe/easy way to search and replace text w/in an html page?

[Darrell]

The attached code isn't very well tested.
And I'm sure as always that someone else will point out that this was
possible
from the lib :)

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--Darrell

"Levi Cook" <levicook at earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:3840593B.2D1A2E30 at earthlink.net...
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to python and I've been tasked w/ writing a script that fetches
> a web-page and highlights the term that the user searched for. Passing
> the URL and search term to my script was a cinch and fetching the page
> was also quite easy.
>
> The crux of my problem lies with establishing a strategy for searching
> out the users term and replacing it with css tags surrounding the
> original term.
> At first glance the re module seemed sufficient (and maybe still is ),
> but it doesn't really have any knowledge of HTML semantics. My next
> venture was to look at the htmllib module. This appears to parse the
> html fine, but i'm still at a bit of a loss on what this actually does
> for me, particularly how do I get my parser to output my page.
>
> Does anyone know where I can find code that does anything remotely like
> this?
> Does anyone know where I can find good reference on the htmllib module,
> the python library reference is pretty bleak in this area.
>
> Thanks in advance for you time and help.
> Levi Cook
> levicook at earthlink.net



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