Hi, I am new to Python and have been doing most of my work with PHP until now. I find Python to be *much* nicer for the development of local apps (running on my machine) but I am very new to the Python way of thinking and I don't realy know where to start other than just by doing it...so far I'm just through the tut :)
My problem is as follows: I have an html file with a list of records from a database. The list of records is delimited with a comment and the format is as follows: <!-- comment first--> <a href="slfdhksah kkshdfksahdf">Record 1</a> <b>Field1</b>Data data data<br><b>Field2</b>Data data data<br><b>Field3</b>Data data data<br><b>Field4</b>Data data data<br> <a href="slfdhksah kkshdfksahdf">Record 2</a> <b>Field1</b>Data data data<br><b>Field2</b>Data data data<br><b>Field3</b>Data data data<br><b>Field4</b>Data data data<br> <a href="slfdhksah kkshdfksahdf">Record 3</a> <b>Field1</b>Data data data<br><b>Field2</b>Data data data<br><b>Field3</b>Data data data<br><b>Field4</b>Data data data<br> <!-- comment last--> The data fields could be up to 2 or 3 paragraphs each. The number and names of fields may differ between records (some info in one, but not the other - ie null values do not show up in the html) What are the string functions I would use and how would I use them? I saw something about html parsing in python, but that might be overkill. Babysteps. Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
