Beginner: HTML Parsing

[Paul Boddie]

"J. David Lashar" <dlashar at sprynet.com> wrote in message news:<abunna$9s2$1 at slb2.atl.mindspring.net>...
> As a beginner, I'm working through the O'Reilly books mentioned in an
> earlier posting, but I haven't found much guidance on parsing an HTML file
> once I've pulled it down with httplib.  And I'm finding the Python Library
> Reference to be a bit cryptic.   Could someone point to resources or provide
> examples?

Take a look at this document:

  http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/HTML.html

And I'm sure that Dive Into Python is even more useful on this subject:

  http://www.diveintopython.org/dialect_divein.html

Paul