suggestions for VIN parsing

[Dan Stromberg]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net> wrote:
> I would like to parse the VIN, frame and engine numbers found on this page
> (below). I don't really know any regex, I have looked a little at pyparsing.
> I have some other similar numbers to. I am looking for suggestions, which
> "tool" should I learn, how should I approach this.
> http://www.britishspares.com/41.php

I don't see any VIN numbers there offhand (they perhaps don't belong
on the public internet since they can sometimes be used to make a car
key), but most people parse HTML using Python via lxml or
BeautifulSoup.