In article <bb1a55fa-3dcf-4480-ae87-be30a1a65...@h9g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, John Salerno <johnj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I had considered exactly that method, but I don't know for sure > if the titles and names will always have links like that, so I didn't > want to tie my programming to something so specific. But perhaps it's > still better than just taking the first two strings. Such is the nature of screen scraping. For the most part, web pages are not meant to be parsed. If you decide to go down the road of trying to extract data from them, all bets are off. You look at the markup, take your best guess, and go for it. There's no magic here. Nobody can look at this HTML and come up with some hard and fast rule for how you're supposed to parse it. And, even if they could, it's all likely to change tomorrow when the site rolls out their next UI makeover. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list