Question about how to do something in BeautifulSoup?

[Mario R. Osorio]

I think you'd do better using the pyparsing library


On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 9:02:00 AM UTC-5, inhahe wrote:
> I hope this is an appropriate mailing list for BeautifulSoup questions,
> it's been a long time since I've used python-list and I don't remember if
> third-party modules are on topic. I did try posting to the BeautifulSoup
> mailing list on Google groups, but I've waited a day or two and my message
> hasn't been approved yet.
> 
> Say I have the following HTML (I hope this shows up as plain text here
> rather than formatting):
> 
> <div style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong>"Is
> today the day?"</strong></em></span></div>
> 
> And I want to extract the "Is today the day?" part. There are other places
> in the document with <em> and <strong>, but this is the only place that
> uses color #000000, so I want to extract anything that's within a color
> #000000 style, even if it's nested multiple levels deep within that.
> 
> - Sometimes the color is defined as RGB(0, 0, 0) and sometimes it's defined
> as #000000
> - Sometimes the <strong> is within the <em> and sometimes the <em> is
> within the <strong>.
> - There may be other discrepancies I haven't noticed yet
> 
> How can I do this in BeautifulSoup (or is this better done in lxml.html)?
> Thanks