Tina I wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a small, probably trivial even, problem. I have the following HTML: >> <b> >> METAR: >> </b> >> ENBR 270920Z 00000KT 9999 FEW018 02/M01 Q1004 NOSIG >> <br /> >> <b> >> short-TAF: >> </b> >> ENBR 270800Z 270918 VRB05KT 9999 FEW020 SCT040 >> <br /> >> <b> >> long-TAF: >> </b> >> ENBR 271212 VRB05KT 9999 FEW020 BKN030 TEMPO 2012 2000 SNRA VV010 >> BECMG 2124 15012KT >> <br /> > > I need to make this into a dictionary like this: > > dictionary = {"METAR:" : "ENBR 270920Z 00000KT 9999 FEW018 02/M01 Q1004 > NOSIG" , "short-TAF:" : "ENBR 270800Z 270918 VRB05KT 9999 FEW020 SCT040" > , "long-Taf:" : "ENBR 271212 VRB05KT 9999 FEW020 BKN030 TEMPO 2012 2000 > SNRA VV010 BECMG 2124 15012KT"} > > I have played around with BeautifulSoup but I'm stuck at stripping off > the tags and chop it up to what I need to put in the dict. If someone > can offer some hints or example to get me going I would greatly > appreciate it. > > Thanks! > Tina Forgot to mention that the "METAR:", "short-TAF", and "long-TAF" is always named as such wheras the line of data ("ENBR 271212 VRB05KT 9999 FEW020 BKN030 TEMPO 2012 2000 SNRA VV010 ") is dynamic and can be anything...
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