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13.1.1 Example HTML Parser

As a basic example, below is a very basic HTML parser that uses the HTMLParser class to print out tags 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

    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        print "Encountered the end of a %s tag" % tag

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Release 2.2, documentation updated on December 21, 2001.