Handling the HTMLParser.HTMLParseError exception, and test case

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I am working on a python script where I use data from a HTML file. I use the HTMLParser module, with my own handle_endtag and so on, as described here

When handling exceptions, I am looking at handling the HTMLParser.HTMLParseError exception. Yet I cannot make a test case where the parser throws an exception! Two questions:

Is the parser so good at parsing anything that handling the exception is useless?

Can someone cook up a test input that makes the parser throw the exception ? (I want to see what it looks like!)

Poor, tortured, parser.

hymloth · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-01 10:24:33Z

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HTMLParser.HTMLParseError is raised on broken markup and in some cases when it encounters an error while parsing.

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

parser = HTMLParser()

parser.feed('<![..]>')

edited Aug 1, 2013 at 10:24

answered Aug 1, 2013 at 10:16

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