Question

I`m processing HTML page and finally ended up with lines like this:

<td class="border">AAA</td><td class="border">BBB</td>

I need to extract AAA and BBB into variables wwith HTMLParser and i cannot figure out how to do it simply.
I cannot use any other parser, cause i`m limited in python tools.
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

This will print the data within TD tags:

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

inTD = False

# create a subclass and override the handler methods
class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        global inTD
        if tag.upper() == "TD":
            inTD = True
    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        global inTD
        if tag.upper() == "TD":
            inTD = False
    def handle_data(self, data):
        global inTD
        if inTD:
            print data