HTML Parser doubt

[shajias]

Hi ,
I am trying to parse HTML data and retrive the contents. I am facing a problem which I have explained below.

I have imported HTMLParser class and using the handle_data function. The issue here is the '<' and '>' data which is represented as &le and &ge is getting stripped off.

For eg: if the html representation is like &lt;This&gt is an example which will read as <This> is an example . When I parse it, I am getting the value only as This is an example.

ie... '<' and '>' got stripped off....

Please help

[shajias]

Hi ,
Any one has any clue about this one... i am in need of this info very urgently..... :-(

[bartonc]

Hi ,
Any one has any clue about this one... i am in need of this info very urgently..... :-(

I don't do html, but have you tried "<this> is an example"?

[shajias]

Putting in quotes wont work..... This scipt is a genric one which takes many files as input.... Issue here is whenever &le; and &ge; which stands for < and > the handle_data function in HTMLParser class strips those '<' and '>'