Question

I am hoping to write a script that will go through a directory and check if the html files are badly formed. Please see my code

directory = "html"
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
    for file in files:
        if str(file).endswith('.html'):
              #Help needed here
              if file is badly formed:
                 print "Badly Formed"
              else:
                 print "Well Formed"

Answer 1

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ETree
....

    try:
        self.doc = ETree.parse( file )
        # do stuff with it ...
    except  ETree.ParseError :
        print( "ERROR in {0} : {1}".format( ETree.ParseError.filename, ETree.ParseError.msg ) )