How to parse malformed HTML in python, using standard libraries

Question

There are so many html and xml libraries built into python, that it\'s hard to believe there\'s no support for real-world HTML parsing.

I\'ve found plenty of great t

Answer 1

Your choices are to change your requirements or to duplicate all of the work done by the developers of third party modules.

Beautiful soup consists of a single python file with about 2000 lines of code, if that is too big of a dependency, then go ahead and write your own, it won't work as well and probably won't be a whole lot smaller.