Michiel Overtoom wrote:
>
> Alex wrote...
>>
>>Okay, heres the general idea of the html I have to work with:
>>
>><div>
>> noun
>> <table class='luna'>
>> <table class='luna'>
>> <table class='luna'>
>> <table class='luna'>
>> verb
>> <table class='luna'>
>> <table class='luna'>
>> <table class='luna'>
>></div>
>>
>>Okay, I left off some stuff.
>
> I wish you didn't, or at least provided an URL where I can get the page
> which you are trying to parse. Now I don't have a valid testcase to
> tinker
> with. And maybe you can also show your code which you already came up
> with.
>
>
>> I can easily get the tables but it is the span's than I am having trouble
> with.
>
> I can't see any SPAN tags in the example you provided.
>
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Oh, well sorry, I wrote the span tags, but they didn't show up. But it was
around the noun. Here is the code I have to get the definitions alone:
import urllib
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
class defWord:
def __init__(self, word):
self.word = word
def get_defs(term):
soup =
BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen('http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s' %
term))
for tabs in soup.findAll('table', {'class': 'luna-Ent'}):
yield tabs.findAll('td')[-1].contents[0].string
self.mainList = list(get_defs(self.word))
Theres a bit more to it, but it doesn't matter here, and so if you look I am
using dictionary.com as the website. If you look at the html, the "" tags
are where the type of the word is and that is what I need, in order. Or if I
can figure out how many <table> tags are inbetween each "" tag, that too
would work.
If you need anything else, feel free to ask!
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