On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com>wrote:
> But if you're using it on HTML form text, regexps are usually the wrong > tool, and you should be using an HTML parser (such as BeautifulSoup) that > knows how to handle odd text and escapings better and more robustly than > regexps will. > I have an automatically generated HTML form from which I need to extract data to the script which this form calls (to which the information is sent). I believe BeautifulSoup is geared to scraping pages that exist permanently on the web. By the time BeautifulSoup was called, this page would be gone. Any other ideas? TIA beno
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