Python equivalent of "lynx -dump"?

[Dowe Keller]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>I'm looking for a functional equivalent of the "-dump" option to the
>lynx web-browser in Python.  "-dump" dumps the formatted output of an
>HTML document.
>
>Right now I have a python program that captures the output of a
>webpage and prints it like so:
>
>        lynxcmd = "lynx -dump %s" %url
>        data = os.popen(lynxcmd).read()
>        print data
>
>I would like to do this entirely within python instead of relying on
>lynx to make the program more portable.
>
>How can I capture only the formatted output of an HTML page within
>Python?

Actually, If you just want system portability, you could stick with
lynx.  There's a version of lynx  for just about every
OS/Architecture out there.

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