HTMLParser and write

[Kai I Hendry]

I am finding the :
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/htmlparser-example.html
A little lacking. 

I want an example with parses and then writes the same html file (a fine test
case!). Does anyone know where I can find such an example, as my initial attempt
is proving tricky. For example do I really need to do things like: ' %s="%s" '
% (name, value) with the attributes? What happens if a tag needs not be closed
by handle_endtag? Why does my __init__ def not work? And what about the rest?
>From decl to parsing entities...


#!/usr/bin/python2.3
import sys
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):

    #def __init__(self):
        #self.tagsoup = []

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        self.tagsoup.append(tag)
        sys.stdout.write('<%s' % tag)
        for attr in attrs:
            name, value = attr
            sys.stdout.write(' %s="%s" ' % (name, value))
        sys.stdout.write('>')


        #This is the whole tag
        #But, how do know if it needs to be closed?
        #print self.get_starttag_text()


    def handle_data(self, data):
        sys.stdout.write(data)

    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        self.tagsoup.remove(tag)
        sys.stdout.write('</%s>' % tag)

        #Something like this?
        #Or is there a better way?
        #print self.check_for_whole_start_tag

if __name__ == "__main__":
        h = MyHTMLParser()

        # __init__ def results in some sort of rawdata error, hence:
        h.tagsoup = []

        #h.feed(sys.stdin.read())
    
        import urllib2
        html = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/hendry/')
        h.feed(html.read())