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On 28Jul2016 19:28, Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> wrote:
>Arshpreet Singh <arsh840@gmail.com> wrote:
>>I am writing Imdb scrapper, and getting available list of titles from IMDB 
>>website which provide txt file in very raw format, Here is the one part of 
>>file(http://pastebin.com/fpMgBAjc) as the file provides tags like 
>>Distribution  Votes,Rank,Title I want to parse title names, I tried with 
>>readlines() method but it returns only list which is quite heterogeneous, is 
>>it possible that I can parse each value comes under title section?
>
>Beautiful Soup will make your task much easier
><https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/>.

Did you look at his sample data? Plain text, not HTML or XML. Beautiful Soup is 
not what he needs here.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>