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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:07:39 +1100
Subject: Re: Noob trying to parse bad HTML using xml.etree.ElementTree
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Morten Guldager
<morten.guldager@gmail.com> wrote:
> Question is if it's possible to tweak xml.etree.ElementTree to accept, and
> understand sloppy html, or if you have suggestions for similar easy to use
> framework, preferably among the included batteries?
>

Check out BeautifulSoup, it's fairly good at dealing with messy input.

ChrisA