stripping html tags when using pyparsing

[MickH]

Hallo

Could anyone assist a newbie please -

I have created a program based on Paul Maguire's example in 'Building recursive descent parsers with python'

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from pyparsing import *
import urllib

# define basic text patterns for search

skipA = Literal('25px">')
searchString= Word(alphas ) + 'to:'
tdStart = Literal('"routeTitle">').suppress()
#tdEnd = Literal("</TBODY>").suppress()
tdEnd = Literal("<!--==").suppress()
aa = Literal('<TR>').suppress()

parama =  tdStart + searchString.setResultsName("from")+ SkipTo(tdEnd).setResultsName("details") + tdEnd

# get list of Routes & prices (+ Loads of other stuff)

aUrl = "http://www.aerarann.ie/"
aPage = urllib.urlopen( aUrl )
aListHTML = aPage.read()
aPage.close()

for srvrtokens,startloc,endloc in parama.scanString( aListHTML ):
    print 'DETAILS EXTRACTED : ',"%(from)-15s : %(details)20s" % srvrtokens

The code works but brings back all of the html tags (except those I search on), when all I want to bring back is the embedded data.

Also the data occurs in several blocks, but if I put the 'tdEnd' parameter to a field which terminates each block, It only bring back the first block. So I had to set the tdEnd to '<T BODY>' which only occurrs at the end of the page
(which brings back all of the data).

Any assistance would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Mick

[Paul McGuire]

Mick -

The latest release contains the example htmlStripper.py, which might help you (although you have probably moved on with your life...)

Sorry to not be more responsive,
-- Paul