elementtree

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

elsa wrote:
> I know how to turn HTML into an ElementTree object

I don't. ;)

ElementTree doesn't have an HTML parser, so what do you use for parsing?


> but I don't know
> how to then view the structure of this object. Is there a method or
> module that you can give an ElementTree object to, and it returns some
> kind of graphical or printed representation of the tree? Otherwise, if
> you can't see you're tree's structure, how do you know what is a
> sensible way of iterating over the tree to access the info you need?

ElementTree has a tostring() method that returns a string. To get a pretty
printed representation, you can use the indent() function from this recipe:

http://effbot.org/zone/element-lib.htm#prettyprint

Stefan