html parsing

[Fredrik Lundh]

Randy Heiland wrote:
> I'm a newbie at parsing html in Python... could someone offer a snippet
> of code to:
> 1) specify a URL
> 2) parse the html and return the hyperlink associated with a unique
> anchor string

the htmllib-example-1 script almost does what you want.

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonsl/chapter/ch05.html#t5

to read from an url, replace the "open" call with a
call to "urllib.urlopen".

to get the link for a given text, just look it up in the
anchors dictionary.

hope this helps!

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