html.parser --- Simple HTML and XHTML parser — Examples
The following class implements a parser that will be used to illustrate more examples from html.parser import HTMLParser from html.entities import name2codepoint class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser): def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs): print("Start tag:", tag) for attr in attrs: print(" attr:", attr) >
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The following class implements a parser that will be used to illustrate more examples
from html.parser import HTMLParser from html.entities import name2codepoint
class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser): def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs): print("Start tag:", tag) for attr in attrs: print(" attr:", attr)
>>> parser.feed('<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" ' ... '" Decl : DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "
Parsing an element with a few attributes and a title
>>> parser.feed('') Start tag: img attr: ('src', 'python-logo.png') attr: ('alt', 'The Python logo') >>> >>> parser.feed('Python') Start tag: h1 Data : Python End tag : h1
The content of elements like script and style is returned as is, without further parsing
>>> parser.feed('#python { color: green }') Start tag: style attr: ('type', 'text/css') Data : #python { color: green } End tag : style
>>> parser.feed('' ... 'alert("hello! ☺");') Start tag: script attr: ('type', 'text/javascript') Data : alert("hello! ☺"); End tag : script
Attribute names are converted to lowercase, quotes from attribute values removed, and None is returned as value for empty attributes (such as checked)
>>> parser.feed("") Start tag: input attr: ('type', 'checkbox') attr: ('checked', None) attr: ('required', '') attr: ('disabled', 'disabled')
>>> parser.feed('' ... 'IE-specific content') Comment : a comment Comment : [if IE 9]>IE-specific content<![endif]
Parsing named and numeric character references and converting them to the correct char (note: these 3 references are all equivalent to '>')
>>> parser = MyHTMLParser() >>> parser.feed('>>>') Data : >>>
>>> parser = MyHTMLParser(convert_charrefs=False) >>> parser.feed('>>>') Named ent: > Num ent : > Num ent : >
Feeding incomplete chunks to ~HTMLParser.feed works, but ~HTMLParser.handle_data might be called more than once if convert_charrefs is false
>>> for chunk in ['buff', 'ered', ' text']: ... parser.feed(chunk) ... Start tag: span Data : buff Data : ered Data : text End tag : span
Parsing invalid HTML (e.g. unquoted attributes) also works
>>> parser.feed('tag soup') Start tag: p Start tag: a attr: ('class', 'link') attr: ('href', '#main') Data : tag soup End tag : p End tag : a
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