These are vintage motorcycles so the "VIN's" are not like modern VIN's these are frame numbers and engine number. I don't want to parse the page, I what a function that given a VIN (frame or engine number) returns the year the bike was made.
Vincent Davis 720-301-3003 On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Vincent Davis <vinc...@vincentdavis.net> > wrote: > > I would like to parse the VIN, frame and engine numbers found on this > page > > (below). I don't really know any regex, I have looked a little at > pyparsing. > > I have some other similar numbers to. I am looking for suggestions, which > > "tool" should I learn, how should I approach this. > > http://www.britishspares.com/41.php > > I don't see any VIN numbers there offhand (they perhaps don't belong > on the public internet since they can sometimes be used to make a car > key), but most people parse HTML using Python via lxml or > BeautifulSoup. >
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