need help with python syntax

[homepricemaps@gmail.com]

if i have a piece of html that looks like this

<tr class="rulesbod y">
<td width="183" class="rulesbod y">cnn.com

and i want to scrape out cnn.com , what syntax would i use? i have
tried this and it doesn't work

for incident in bs('td', {'class' : 'rulesbody'}, {'class' :
'rulesbody'} ):

[gene tani]

Re: need help with python syntax


homepricemaps@g mail.com wrote:[color=blue]
> if i have a piece of html that looks like this
>
> <tr class="rulesbod y">
> <td width="183" class="rulesbod y">cnn.com
>
> and i want to scrape out cnn.com , what syntax would i use? i have
> tried this and it doesn't work
>
> for incident in bs('td', {'class' : 'rulesbody'}, {'class' :
> 'rulesbody'} ):[/color]

Did you try Beautiful soup, as suggested in the reply you got the 1st
time you posted this question?

[gene tani]

Re: need help with python syntax


gene tani wrote:[color=blue]
> homepricemaps@g mail.com wrote:[color=green]
> > if i have a piece of html that looks like this
> >
> > <tr class="rulesbod y">
> > <td width="183" class="rulesbod y">cnn.com
> >
> > and i want to scrape out cnn.com , what syntax would i use? i have
> > tried this and it doesn't work
> >
> > for incident in bs('td', {'class' : 'rulesbody'}, {'class' :
> > 'rulesbody'} ):[/color]
>
> Did you try Beautiful soup, as suggested in the reply you got the 1st
> time you posted this question?[/color]

sorry, nevermind, you did put forth some effort

myhtml=r'<tr class="rulesbod y"> <td width="183"
class="rulesbod y">cnn.com </td>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(m yhtml)
print soup.td.string

[Mike Meyer]

Re: need help with python syntax

homepricemaps@g mail.com writes:[color=blue]
> if i have a piece of html that looks like this
> <tr class="rulesbod y">
> <td width="183" class="rulesbod y">cnn.com
> and i want to scrape out cnn.com , what syntax would i use? i have
> tried this and it doesn't work
> for incident in bs('td', {'class' : 'rulesbody'}, {'class' :
> 'rulesbody'} ):[/color]

If you're using BeautifulSoup, you don't need to pass in the second
dictionary. For that matter, you don't need to pass in the first one -
bs.fetch (which is what calling a tag object calls) will treat a
bare string as a request for a class. On the other hand, I don't like
using the callable objecdt shortcut, and prefer spelling out fetch
explicitly. So you'd write:

for incident in bs.fetch('td', 'rulesbody'):

<mike


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