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Re: Fetching data from a HTML file

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Date	Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:28:56 +0100
Subject	Re: Fetching data from a HTML file
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On 3/23/12, Sangeet <mrsangeet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got to fetch data from the snippet below and have been trying to match
> the digits in this to specifically to specific groups. But I can't seem to
> figure how to go about stripping the tags! :(
>
> <tr><td align="center"><b>Sum</b></td><td></td><td align='center'
> class="green">245</td><td align='center' class="red">11</td><td
> align='center'>0</td><td align='center' >256</td><td align='center' >1.496
> [min]</td></tr>
> </table>

Try beautiful soup: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

> Actually, I'm working on ROBOT Framework, and haven't been able to figure
> out how to read data from HTML tables. Reading from the source, is the best
> (read rudimentary) way I could come up with. Any suggestions are welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> Sangeet
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Thread

Fetching data from a HTML file Sangeet <mrsangeet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 06:52 -0700
  RE: Fetching data from a HTML file "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-03-23 15:08 +0000
  Re: Fetching data from a HTML file Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-23 16:28 +0100
  Re: Fetching data from a HTML file Jon Clements <joncle@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-23 22:12 -0700
    Re: Fetching data from a HTML file John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-03-24 14:04 -0700

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