On Aug 24, 12:13 am, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Hi, > > elsa wrote: > > I know how to turn HTML into an ElementTree object > > I don't. ;) > > ElementTree doesn't have an HTML parser, so what do you use for parsing?
The OP could be feeding the HTML through tidy, or it could be XHTML. > > but I don't know > > how to then view the structure of this object. Is there a method or > > module that you can give an ElementTree object to, and it returns some > > kind of graphical or printed representation of the tree? Otherwise, if > > you can't see you're tree's structure, how do you know what is a > > sensible way of iterating over the tree to access the info you need? > > ElementTree has a tostring() method that returns a string. To get a pretty > printed representation, you can use the indent() function from this recipe: > > http://effbot.org/zone/element-lib.htm#prettyprint Another possibility is to write out the ElementTree object as XML with an .xml extension, and view it in a modern web browser (Firefox, IE, others maybe) that can show XML structure. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
