HTML Parsing

[mtuller]

Alright. I have tried everything I can find, but am not getting
anywhere. I have a web page that has data like this:

<tr >
<td headers="col1_1"  style="width:21%"   >
<span  class="hpPageText" >LETTER</span></td>
<td headers="col2_1"  style="width:13%; text-align:right"   >
<span  class="hpPageText" >33,699</span></td>
<td headers="col3_1"  style="width:13%; text-align:right"   >
<span  class="hpPageText" >1.0</span></td>
<td headers="col4_1"  style="width:13%; text-align:right"   >
</tr>

What is show is only a small section.

I want to extract the 33,699 (which is dynamic) and set the value to a
variable so that I can insert it into a database. I have tried parsing
the html with pyparsing, and the examples will get it to print all
instances with span, of which there are a hundred or so when I use:

for srvrtokens in printCount.searchString(printerListHTML):
        print srvrtokens

If I set the last line to srvtokens[3] I get the values, but I don't
know grab a single line and then set that as a variable.

I have also tried Beautiful Soup, but had trouble understanding the
documentation, and HTMLParser doesn't seem to do what I want. Can
someone point me to a tutorial or give me some pointers on how to
parse html where there are multiple lines with the same tags and then
be able to go to a certain line and grab a value and set a variable's
value to that?

Thanks,

Mike