Python equivalent of "lynx -dump"?

[ben at co.and.co]

lewst <lewst at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a functional equivalent of the "-dump" option to the
> lynx web-browser in Python.  "-dump" dumps the formatted output of an
> HTML document.

> Right now I have a python program that captures the output of a
> webpage and prints it like so:

>         lynxcmd = "lynx -dump %s" %url
>         data = os.popen(lynxcmd).read()
>         print data

An all Python solution is a little bit more complicated:

import htmllib, formatter 

p = htmllib.HTMLParser(formatter.AbstractFormatter(formatter.DumbWriter()))
f = open('test.html')
p.feed(f.read())
p.close()
f.close()

If you want a writer who knows how to write lists (<ol>), look for a message
called LessDumbWriter posted last friday (by me).

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