Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!selfless.tophat.at!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.015 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'parser': 0.05; 'snippet': 0.07; 'python': 0.07; '(right': 0.09; 'pages.': 0.09; 'this:': 0.11; 'def': 0.13; 'library': 0.15; "'a'": 0.16; 'fancy': 0.16; 'subject:Trying': 0.16; 'skip:m 30': 0.16; 'figure': 0.18; 'google,': 0.20; 'modules': 0.20; 'code': 0.22; '(and': 0.22; 'trying': 0.23; 'received:209.85.214.174': 0.23; 'received:mail- iw0-f174.google.com': 0.23; 'script': 0.26; "i'm": 0.26; "i'll": 0.26; 'external': 0.29; 'class': 0.29; 'message-id:@gmail.com': 0.30; 'import': 0.32; 'page.': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.32; "i've": 0.33; 'relatively': 0.33; 'page': 0.33; 'module': 0.33; 'test': 0.33; "isn't": 0.34; 'received:192.168.1': 0.34; 'received:192': 0.34; 'skip:" 10': 0.34; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.35; 'source,': 0.35; 'too': 0.36; 'none': 0.36; 'received:192.168': 0.37; 'some': 0.37; 'received:209.85': 0.37; 'either': 0.37; 'received:google.com': 0.38; 'but': 0.38; 'anything': 0.38; 'completely': 0.38; 'received:209.85.214': 0.39; 'returning': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:209': 0.39; "it's": 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'simple': 0.60; 'url:nl': 0.60; 'skip:h 20': 0.60; 'back': 0.61; 'link': 0.62; 'tag,': 0.84; 'ultimately,': 0.84; 'url:dir': 0.84; 'page;': 0.91 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+bUq+amVd7mYaERJfknsZJsb9tNJgrzcaJv5dJ41yDQ=; b=XWvO3lez/KJ8N9nDH3nouXdO8jKyODnGBoXxxbIgyd7aeIKPJJz+hMvKD6pChTuP8h Dq55A9C22EvlO28ecazdDLjUM/9pGsguOTXkhwsF5e8aKXe4c5/i2rDAuPfMQBHGjJef 1V83H0HxedgzfzTRFH3XZq8m+N83s9mzSrdkI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AjR+4NOYNUotp6yOsjteKPlg624htwuG3ogozsahC5h0lzU9kFJI2GQcTOP7+kGFJy rVdWK7DngHl3PbPYgTJd8kiA7zDfXJPLl5OCJXe9IX4Ld9fVn5ou9M7gu6FsXnoxipk3 rYaj5zFeC2lcMyXC8vHD1L4kF3lzdM9WMsPUo= Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 15:45:29 -0500 From: Andrew Berg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Trying to understand html.parser.HTMLParser X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.94.164.166 X-Trace: 1305492338 news.xs4all.nl 41114 [::ffff:82.94.164.166]:53451 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:5445 I'm trying to understand why HMTLParser.feed() isn't returning the whole page. My test script is this: import urllib.request import html.parser class MyHTMLParser(html.parser.HTMLParser): def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs): if tag == 'a' and attrs: print(tag,'-',attrs) url = 'http://x264.nl/x264/?dir=./64bit/8bit_depth' page = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read() parser = MyHTMLParser() parser.feed(str(page)) I can do print(page) and get the entire HTML source, but parser.feed(str(page)) only spits out the information for the top links and none of the "revisionxxxx" links. Ultimately, I just want to find the name of the first "revisionxxxx" link (right now it's "revision1995", when a new build is uploaded it will be "revision2000" or whatever). I figure this is a relatively simple page; once I understand all of this, I can move on to more complicated pages. I've searched Google, but everything I find is either outdated, a recommendation for some external module (I don't need to do anything too fancy and most modules don't completely support Python 3 anyway) or is just a code snippet with no real explanation. I had a book that explained this, but I had to return it to the library (and I'll have to get back in line to check it out again).