Parsing HTML pages

[PythonNoob89]

Hello me and my friends are currently working on an easy pythion project but we are stuck with one of the functions we need to develope:(
We really don't know how to parse data from an html page.. we pasted a copy of our program below and it would be great if somebody could give us some tips on how to do this:D thx alot for your time and patience.

import urllib
import sys, re, os

def get_page_from_file(aFile):
    imputFile = open(aFile, 'r')
    strHTML = imputFile.read()
    strHTML = re.sub(r'\s+'," " , strHTML)
    return strHTML

def get_title(strHTML):
    Title_pattern = re.compile(r'<title>(.*) -- (.*)</title>', re.I)
    matchedObject = Title_pattern.search(strHTML)
    if matchedObject:
        return matchedObject.group(2)
    else:
        return "No title found."

def getData(strHTML):
    pattern = r'class="CountryLink".'
    needle = re.compile(pattern)
    resultList = needle.split(strHTML)
    return resultList

def parseData(strHTML):
    parse_pattern = re.compile(r'<title>(.*) -- (.*)</title>', re.I)
    matchedObject = parse_pattern.search(strHTML)
    if matchedObject:
        return matchedObject.group(2)
    else:
        return "No parseData."

aFile = 'area.html'
strHTML = get_page_from_file(aFile)
title = get_title(strHTML)
data = getData(strHTML)
parse = parseData(strHTML)

print parse
print title
print data[45]

[ghostdog74]

basically, if you wish to do your own parsing, the tools you need are those string methods such as split,strip,rep lace,etc or the re module. But I suggest you take a look at html parser libraries such as htmllib , beautifulsoup . This dive into python page also shows how to parse html. Have a look.
these tools make it easier to do what you want.

[PythonNoob89]

thx u very much :D .. U really helped us get a good grade:P