On 04/09/2011 07:41 AM, Baþar ÖZDEMÝR wrote:

Hi, Why the crash? I am thinking about that it must be related with the web site which i am parsing. Please point me in the right direction. Regards. (lxml-2.3 on Python 2.5.2)

The code:

#-*- coding: utf-8 -*- #!/usr/bin/env python import lxml.html

root = "http://www.forumla.net"

r = lxml.html.parse(root) title = r.find(".//title").text

print title

The traceback

File "ll.py", line 8, in <module> title = r.find(".//title").text File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 1936, in lxml.etree._ElementTree.find (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:44987) File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 1698, in lxml.etree._ElementTree._assertHasRoot (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:42865) AssertionError: ElementTree not initialized, missing root

Try this: title = r.getroot().find(".//title").text Bob Kline