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I need to parse html emails that will be similar but not exactly the same. I will be looking for things like dates, amounts, vendors, ect., but depending on who the email came from, the markup will be different.

How could I parse out those common things from lots of different html markup in python?

Thanks for your suggestions.

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    Just don't use regular expressions :) Commented Feb 25, 2011 at 17:10

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You absolutely need to consider Beautiful Soup library.

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Looks like a good way to parse the html. Will BeatifulSoup also cleanup/fix mal formed html?
@user634529. The answer is YES.
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You can use Beautiful Soup to parse HTML in Python.

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@downvoter: Are you trying to get a badge for downvoting everything or something? The link's not dead and you didn't leave a comment. I'm assuming the same person downvoted all 3 answers here.
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BeautifulSoup or lxml are decent HTML parsers. BeautifulSoup is a bit more handy but has some odds and ends.

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