Trying to understand html.parser.HTMLParser

[Andrew Berg]

On 2011.05.16 02:26 AM, Karim wrote:
> Use regular expression for bad HTLM or beautifulSoup (google it), below 
> a exemple to extract all html links:
>
> linksList = re.findall('<a href=(.*?)>.*?</a>',htmlSource)
> for link in linksList:
>      print link
I was afraid I might have to use regexes (mostly because I could never
understand them).
Even the BeautifulSoup website itself admits it's awful with Python 3 -
only the admittedly broken 3.1.0 will work with Python 3 at all.
ElementTree doesn't seem to have been updated in a long time, so I'll
assume it won't work with Python 3.
lxml looks promising, but it doesn't say anywhere whether it'll work on
Python 3 or not, which is puzzling since the latest release was only a
couple months ago.

Actually, if I'm going to use regex, I might as well try to implement
Versions* in Python.

Thanks for the answers!

*http://en.totalcmd.pl/download/wfx/net/Versions (original, made for
Total Commander) and
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/versions-wfx_versions/
(clone implemented as a Firefox add-on; it's so wonderful, I even wrote
the docs for it!)