or i guess you could go the middle-way and just use regex. people generally say don't use regex for html (regex can't do the nesting), but it's what i would do in this case. though i don't exactly understand the question, re the html file parsing script you say you have already, or how the date is 'modified from' the meta-data.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Mark G <markgraha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to python and don't yet know the libraries well. What would > be the best way to approach this problem: I have a html file parsing > script - the file sits on my harddrive. I want to extract the date > modified from the meta-data. Should I read through lines of the file > doing a string.find to look for the character patterns of the meta- > tag, or should I use a DOM type library to retrieve the html element I > want? Which is best practice? which occupies least code? > > Regards, Mark > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
