Improve HTMLParser example in the doc and fix a couple minor things.
diff --git a/Doc/library/html.parser.rst b/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
index 06a3b1a..0dc81a5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@
.. method:: HTMLParser.handle_startendtag(tag, attrs)
Similar to :meth:`handle_starttag`, but called when the parser encounters an
- XHTML-style empty tag (``<a .../>``). This method may be overridden by
+ XHTML-style empty tag (``<img ... />``). This method may be overridden by
subclasses which require this particular lexical information; the default
- implementation simple calls :meth:`handle_starttag` and :meth:`handle_endtag`.
+ implementation simply calls :meth:`handle_starttag` and :meth:`handle_endtag`.
.. method:: HTMLParser.handle_endtag(tag)
@@ -178,27 +178,23 @@
Example HTML Parser Application
-------------------------------
-As a basic example, below is a very basic HTML parser that uses the
-:class:`HTMLParser` class to print out tags as they are encountered::
+As a basic example, below is a simple HTML parser that uses the
+:class:`HTMLParser` class to print out start tags, end tags, and data
+as they are encountered::
- >>> from html.parser import HTMLParser
- >>>
- >>> class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
- ... def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
- ... print("Encountered a {} start tag".format(tag))
- ... def handle_endtag(self, tag):
- ... print("Encountered a {} end tag".format(tag))
- ...
- >>> page = """<html><h1>Title</h1><p>I'm a paragraph!</p></html>"""
- >>>
- >>> myparser = MyHTMLParser()
- >>> myparser.feed(page)
- Encountered a html start tag
- Encountered a h1 start tag
- Encountered a h1 end tag
- Encountered a p start tag
- Encountered a p end tag
- Encountered a html end tag
+ from html.parser import HTMLParser
+
+ class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
+ def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
+ print("Encountered a start tag:", tag)
+ def handle_endtag(self, tag):
+ print("Encountered an end tag:", tag)
+ def handle_data(self, data):
+ print("Encountered some data:", data)
+
+ parser = MyHTMLParser()
+ parser.feed('<html><head><title>Test</title></head>'
+ '<body><h1>Parse me!</h1></body></html>')
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