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Re: Python text file fetch specific part of line

From	cs@zip.com.au
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Python text file fetch specific part of line
Date	2016-07-29 08:17 +1000
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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>

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Python text file fetch specific part of line Arshpreet Singh <arsh840@gmail.com> - 2016-07-27 22:12 -0700
  Re: Python text file fetch specific part of line cs@zip.com.au - 2016-07-28 17:04 +1000
    Re: Python text file fetch specific part of line honeygne@gmail.com - 2016-08-01 23:55 -0700
  Re: Python text file fetch specific part of line Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-07-28 19:28 +1000
    Re: Python text file fetch specific part of line cs@zip.com.au - 2016-07-29 08:17 +1000
      Re: Python text file fetch specific part of line Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-07-29 18:42 +1000
        Re: Python text file fetch specific part of line cs@zip.com.au - 2016-07-30 12:46 +1000

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