Re: python newbie beautifulSoup question

2007-04-12 Thread Jon Crump
Justin, Wow! I thought there might be a 'simple' way! thanks so much, you've given me a lot to chew on. Jon __ J.J. Crump Dept. of History 353560 University of Washington Seattle, WA. 98195 On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Justin Ezequiel wrote: > On Apr 12, 4:15 am, Jon Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: python newbie beautifulSoup question

2007-04-11 Thread Justin Ezequiel
On Apr 12, 4:15 am, Jon Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to feed findAll() a list of tags WITH attributes? >>> BeautifulSoup.__version__ '3.0.3' >>> s = '''\nboo\nhello\n>> a="bar">boo\nhi\n''' >>> soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(s) >>> def func(tag): ... if tag.name not i

python newbie beautifulSoup question

2007-04-11 Thread Jon Crump
Hello world, Is it possible to feed findAll() a list of tags WITH attributes? This psuedocode obviously doesn't work, but it reflects what I want to do: soup.findAll([('td', {'class':'foobar'}), ('li', {'class':'baz'}), ('a', {'name' : re.compile('^it.*$')})]) Any clues, examples, or suggestio