On 07/11/2013 10:59 AM, F.R. wrote:
Hi all,
I haven't been able to get up to speed with XML. I do examples from
the tutorials and experiment with variations. Time and time again I
fail with errors messages I can't make sense of. Here's the latest
one. The url is "http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=XIDEQ&ql=0";. Ubuntu
12.04 LTS, Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug 1 2012, 05:16:07) [GCC 4.6.3]
>>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
>>> tree = ET.parse('q?s=XIDEQ') # output of wget
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=XIDEQ&ql=0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#69>", line 1, in <module>
tree = ET.parse('q?s=XIDEQ')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1183, in parse
tree.parse(source, parser)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 656, in parse
parser.feed(data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1643, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1507, in
_raiseerror
raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 9, column 2
Below first nine lines. The line numbers and the following space are
hand-edited in. Three dots stand for sections cut out to fit long
lines. Line 6 is a bunch of "meta" statements, all of which I show on
a separate line each in order to preserve the angled brackets. On all
lines the angled brackets have been preserved. The mismatched
character is the slash of the closing tag </head>. What could be wrong
with it? And if it is, what about fault tolerance?
1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD . . . /strict.dtd">
2 <html lang="en-US">
3 <head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
4 <title>XIDEQ: Summary for EXIDE TECH NEW- Yahoo! Finance</title>
5 <meta name="description" xml:space="default" content="View the basic
XIDEQ . . .
6 . . . other companies."><meta name="keywords" content="XIDEQ, EXIDE
TECH . . .">
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="118155468215844">
<meta property="fb:admins" content="503762770,100001149693905">
<meta property="og:type" content="company">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Yahoo! Finance">
<meta property="og:title" content="Exide Technologies">
<meta property="og:image"
content="http://l.yimg.com/a/p/fi/31/09/00.jpg";>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=XIDEQ";>
<meta property="og:description" content="View the basic XIDEQ . . .
7 other companies."><link rel="canonical"
href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=XIDEQ";>
8 <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://l.yimg.com/zz/ . . .
type="text/css">
9 </head>
^
Mismatch!
Thanks for suggestions
Frederic
Thank you all!
I was a little apprehensive it could be a silly mistake. And so it was.
I have BeautifulSoup somewhere. Having had no urgent need for it I
remember shirking the learning curve.
lxml seems to be a package with these components (from help (lxml)):
PACKAGE CONTENTS
ElementInclude
_elementpath
builder
cssselect
doctestcompare
etree
html (package)
isoschematron (package)
objectify
pyclasslookup
sax
usedoctest
I would start with "from lxml import html" and see what comes out.
Break time now. Thanks again!
Frederic
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