String parsing

[HMS Surprise]

>         This looks to be simple HTML (and I'm presuming that's a type on
> that ?> ending). A quick glance at the Python library reference (you do
> have a copy, don't you) reveals at least two HTML parsing modules...
>

No that is not a typo and bears investigation. Thanks for the find.

I found HTMLParser but had trouble setting it up.

> About five minutes work gave me this:
>

My effort has been orders of magnitude greater in time.....

Thanks all for all the excellent suggestions.


jh