[Tutor] MemoryError

[Jeff Shannon]

Liam Clarke wrote:

> So, I'm going to throw caution to the wind, and try an re approach. It
> can't be any more unwieldy and ugly than what I've got going at the
> moment.

If you're going to try a new approach, I'd strongly suggest using a 
proper html/xml parser instead of re's.  You'll almost certainly have 
an easier time using a tool that's designed for your specific problem 
domain than you will trying to force a more general tool to work. 
Since you're specifically trying to find (and replace) certain html 
tags and attributes, and that's exactly what html parsers *do*, well, 
the conclusions seems obvious (to me at least). ;)

There are lots of html parsing tools available in Python (though I've 
never needed one myself). I've heard lots of good things about 
BeautifulSoup...

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International