Improve HTMLParser example in the doc.

1d134604 · Ezio Melotti · 5bcd7b10 · 1d134604
Commit 1d134604 authored Oct 28, 2011 by Ezio Melotti
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--- a/Doc/library/htmlparser.rst
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@@ -186,16 +186,21 @@ An exception is defined as well:
 Example HTML Parser Application
 -------------------------------

-As a basic example, below is a very basic HTML parser that uses the
-:class:`HTMLParser` class to print out tags as they are encountered::
+As a basic example, below is a simple HTML parser that uses the
+:class:`HTMLParser` class to print out start tags, end tags and data
+as they are encountered::

   from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

   class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
-
       def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
-           print "Encountered the beginning of a %s tag" % tag
-
+           print "Encountered a start tag:", tag
       def handle_endtag(self, tag):
-           print "Encountered the end of a %s tag" % tag
+           print "Encountered  an end tag:", tag
+       def handle_data(self, data):
+           print "Encountered   some data:", data
+

+   parser = MyHTMLParser()
+   parser.feed('<html><head><title>Test</title></head>'
+               '<body><h1>Parse me!</h1></body></html>')