Question

I’m parsing a html document using HTMLParser and I want to print the contents between the start and end of a p tag

See my code snippet

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == 'p':
            print "TODO: print the contents"

Answer 1

I extended the example from the docs:

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        print "Encountered the beginning of a %s tag" % tag

    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        print "Encountered the end of a %s tag" % tag

    def handle_data(self, data):
        print "Encountered data %s" % data

p = MyHTMLParser()
p.feed('<p>test</p>')

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Encountered the beginning of a p tag
Encountered data test
Encountered the end of a p tag