[Tutor] screen scraping web-based email (Alan Gauld)

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Thu Apr 19 16:40:18 CEST 2007


Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote
> 
>> it doesn't throw errors when you get an http error back,
> 
> Oops, confusing myself here.
> Its urllib2 that throws errors and nothing to do with HTMLParser.
> The advantage of HTMLParser is the lack of a need for a 
> formatter and writer object.

sgmllib doesn't need a formatter either, that is added by htmllib.

Kent


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