Converting HTML to ASCII

[gf gf]

Hi. I'm looking for a Python lib to convert HTML to
ASCII. Of course, a quick Google search showed
several options (although, I must say, less than I
would expect, considering how easy this is to do in
*other* languages... :| ), but, I have 2 requirements,
which none of them seem to meet:

1) Be able to handle badly formed, or illegal, HTML,
as best as possible. Some of the converters I tried
ended up dieing on a weird character (that is, a high
ascii char). Others somehow got confused and dumped
the JavaScript as well.

2) Not embellish the text in any way - no asterisks,
no bracket links, no __ for underlines.

Can anyone direct me to something which could help me
for this?

--Thanks a mil.



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[William Park]

Hi. I'm looking for a Python lib to convert HTML to
ASCII. Of course, a quick Google search showed
several options (although, I must say, less than I
would expect, considering how easy this is to do in
*other* languages... :| ), but, I have 2 requirements,
which none of them seem to meet:

1) Be able to handle badly formed, or illegal, HTML,
as best as possible. Some of the converters I tried
ended up dieing on a weird character (that is, a high
ascii char). Others somehow got confused and dumped
the JavaScript as well.

2) Not embellish the text in any way - no asterisks,
no bracket links, no __ for underlines.

Can anyone direct me to something which could help me
for this?

man lynx
man links
man w3m

 

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Try Beautiful Soup!

1) Be able to handle badly formed, or illegal, HTML,
as best as possible.

From the description:
"It won't choke if you give it ill-formed markup: it'll just give you access to
a correspondingly ill-formed data structure."

Can anyone direct me to something which could help me
for this?

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

Hans Christian

 

[Kent Johnson]

Hi. I'm looking for a Python lib to convert HTML to
ASCII.

You might find these threads on comp.lang.python interesting:
http://tinyurl.com/5zmpn
http://tinyurl.com/6mxmb

Kent