Converting HTML to ASCII

[William Park]

gf gf <unknownsoldier93 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi.  I'm looking for a Python lib to convert HTML to
> ASCII.  Of course, a quick Google search showed
> several options (although, I must say, less than I
> would expect, considering how easy this is to do in
> *other* languages... :| ), but, I have 2 requirements,
> which none of them seem to meet:
> 
> 1) Be able to handle badly formed, or illegal, HTML,
> as best as possible.  Some of the converters I tried
> ended up dieing on a weird character (that is, a high
> ascii char).  Others somehow got confused and dumped
> the JavaScript as well.
> 
> 2) Not embellish the text in any way - no asterisks,
> no bracket links, no __ for underlines.
> 
> Can anyone direct me to something which could help me
> for this?

man lynx
man links
man w3m

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William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>, Toronto, Canada
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