<div>>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup</div><div>>>> soup = BeautifulSoup("""<area coords="427,724,432,732" href="<a href="http://BioCyc.org/ECOLI/NEW-IMAGE">http://BioCyc.org/ECOLI/NEW-IMAGE</a>?</div>

<div>... type=GENE-IN-CHROM-BROWSER&object=EG12309" onmouseover="return</div><div>... overlib('<b>Gene:</b> yjtD<BR><b>Product:</</div><div>... b> predicted rRNA methyltransferase, subunit of predicted rRNA</div>

<div>... methyltransferase<BR><b>Intergenic distances (bp):</</div><div>... b> yjjY< +400 yjtD +214 >thrL');"><b>Gene:</b> yjtD<br /</div><div>... ><b>Product:</b> predicted rRNA methyltransferase, subunit of</div>

<div>... predicted rRNA methyltransferase<br /><b>Intergenic distances (bp):</</div><div>... b> yjjY< +400 yjtD +214 >thrL');" onmouseout="return nd();"></div><div>... </area>""")</div>

<div>>>> soup.area["href"]</div><div>u'<a href="http://BioCyc.org/ECOLI/NEW-IMAGE">http://BioCyc.org/ECOLI/NEW-IMAGE</a>?\ntype=GENE-IN-CHROM-BROWSER&object=EG12309'</div><div><br></div><br>

<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:25 AM, elsa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kerensaelise@hotmail.com">kerensaelise@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

Hi all,<br>
<br>
if I have some HTML that looks like this:<br>
<br>
<area coords="427,724,432,732" href="<a href="http://BioCyc.org/ECOLI/NEW-IMAGE?
type=GENE-IN-CHROM-BROWSER&object=EG12309" target="_blank">http://BioCyc.org/ECOLI/NEW-IMAGE?<br>
type=GENE-IN-CHROM-BROWSER&object=EG12309</a>" onmouseover="return<br>
overlib('<b>Gene:</b> yjtD<BR><b>Product:</<br>
b> predicted rRNA methyltransferase, subunit of predicted rRNA<br>
methyltransferase<BR><b>Intergenic distances (bp):</<br>
b> yjjY< +400 yjtD +214 >thrL');"><b>Gene:</b> yjtD<br /<br>
><b>Product:</b> predicted rRNA methyltransferase, subunit of<br>
predicted rRNA methyltransferase<br /><b>Intergenic distances (bp):</<br>
b> yjjY< +400 yjtD +214 >thrL');" onmouseout="return nd();"><br>
</area><br>
<br>
is there an easy way to use BeautifulSoup to extract just the value of<br>
the href attribute?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
elsa<br>
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