[Tutor] HTML Parser woes

spir denis.spir at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 19:19:10 CET 2014


On 03/04/2014 05:38 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 04/03/14 16:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:26:01PM +0000, Alan Gauld wrote:
>>> My turn to ask a question.
>>> This has me pulling my hair out. Hopefully it's something obvious...
>> [...]
>>> And the output looks like:
>>>
>>> start test
>>> Class Value:  'xl66'
>>> Class Value:  'xl66'
>>> Class Value:  'xl66'
>>> Class Value:  'xl66'
>>> Class Value:  'xl65'
>>> Class Value:  'xl65'
>>> end test
>>>
>>> As you can see I'm picking up the class attribute and
>>> its value but the conditional test for x165 is failing.
>>
>> It's "x L 65", not "x ONE 65".
>>
>>
>>
>
> Doh! I said it would be simple..,. :-(
>
> And xl = Excel, I should have guessed.

I'm curious what font you use such that you even _can_ confuse '1' and 'l' in 
reading (modern fonts are made to avoid such issues, like between 'O' and '0').

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