On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 07:21 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I would like to extract a table from an HTML document and break it > down to a dict for further processing.
I assume you want a dict for each row. > I've googled around a bit and found about 4 different modules that do > html processing, but nothing on dealing explicitly with tables > (something like Perl's HTML::TableExtract module). > I have not seen a table extract module. BeautifulSoup is a third party module that is usually effective in dealing with any HTML. Hopefully the table is reasonably simple with no colspan/rowspan attributes and funny data mixed in. Are the column headers in th tags? Can you use the headers to create field names? (e.g. fieldname = '_'.join( head.lower().split() ) I've got to run (a funeral), but am happy to help. I'll check my email when I get back. > Can someone more knowledgable please point me in the right direction ? > > -- > Thanks, > Paul > > P.S. I'm also looking for a job if anyone knows of anything, or needs > a sysadmin with great perl skills and growing python experience :) Good Luck! > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp DLSLUG/GNHLUG library http://dlslug.org/library.html http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/rsshtml/recent/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/rss/recent/dlslug _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
