I need a starter ptr writing python embedded in html.

[Miki]

On Aug 7, 7:42 pm, "Steven W. Orr" <ste... at syslang.net> wrote:
> I'm ok in python but I haven't done too much with web pages. I have a web page
> that is hand written in html that has about 1000 entries in a table and I want
> to convert the table from entries like this
>
>     <tr>
>       <td> Some Date String </td>
>       <td> SomeTag </td>
>       <td>
>         <a href="localSubdir"> A Title </a>
>       </td>
>       <td>
>         <a href="http://www.example.com/remote/path/something.html"
>           Click
>         </a>
>       </td>
>       <td> Some Comment </td>
>     </tr>
>
> to
>
>    SomePythonCall('Some Date String',
>                 'SomeTag',
>                 'localSubdir',
>                 "http://www.example.com/remote/path/something.html",
>                 'Click',
>                 'Some Comment')
>
> Can someone tell me what I should look at to do this? Is mod_python where I
> should start or are there things that are better?
Have a look at http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/.

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