BeautifulSoup

[John Bokma]

yamamoto <blueskykind02 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> I am new to Python. I'd like to extract "a" tag from a website by
> using "beautifulsoup" module.
> but it doesnt work!

[..]

> check_for_whole_start_tag
>     self.error("malformed start tag")
>   File "C:\Python26\lib\HTMLParser.py", line 115, in error
>     raise HTMLParseError(message, self.getpos())
> HTMLParser.HTMLParseError: malformed start tag, at line 276, column 36
>
> any suggestion?

I guess you're using 3.1.0. If yes, see:
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/3.1-problems.html

You might want to do:

    sudo easy_install -U "BeautifulSoup==3.0.7a"

and try again. 

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