[Tutor] Extracting data from HTML files

kevin7kal plone at kevinkal.com
Sat Dec 31 19:18:35 CET 2005


my 2 cents:
I agree, BeutifulSoup is great for HTML parsing.
It's a little weird and unintuitive at first, but once you get it, it's 
becomes quit an asset.

>When you have time, do try going through a few examples with
>BeautifulSoup.  The web page there comes with some interesting examples,
>and I don't think it's as bad as you might think.  *grin* It's not
>overkill: BeautifulSoup is explicitely designed to do the kind of data
>extraction that you're doing right now.
>
>If you have questions about it, please feel free to ask.  Best of wishes!
>
>
>
>  
>



More information about the Tutor mailing list