XPath is the least painful way of doing it. Here are some samples with various libraries for XPath http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6225
Read XPath basics here http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/default.asp It is not practical and perhaps not polite to expect people write tutorials just for you and send by email. There are a lot of tutorials on the web on this. Just use Google. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list