Example HTML Parser Application
-------------------------------
-As a basic example, below is a very basic HTML parser that uses the
-:class:`HTMLParser` class to print out tags as they are encountered::
+As a basic example, below is a simple HTML parser that uses the
+:class:`HTMLParser` class to print out start tags, end tags and data
+as they are encountered::
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
-
def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
- print "Encountered the beginning of a %s tag" % tag
-
+ print "Encountered a start tag:", tag
def handle_endtag(self, tag):
- print "Encountered the end of a %s tag" % tag
+ print "Encountered an end tag:", tag
+ def handle_data(self, data):
+ print "Encountered some data:", data
+
+ parser = MyHTMLParser()
+ parser.feed('<html><head><title>Test</title></head>'
+ '<body><h1>Parse me!</h1></body></html>')
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