html_format.py

# File: html_format.py
# Description: Examples on how to process html files in Python
# Environment: PyCharm and Anaconda environment
#
# MIT License
# Copyright (c) 2018 Valentyn N Sichkar
# github.com/sichkar-valentyn
#
# Reference to:
# [1] Valentyn N Sichkar. Examples on how to process html files in Python // GitHub platform [Electronic resource]. URL: https://github.com/sichkar-valentyn/Processing_html_files_in_Python (date of access: XX.XX.XXXX)



# Working with files in html format
# Importing library lxml
from lxml import etree
import requests

# Creating a request
respond = requests.get('http://docs.python.org/3')

# Showing the results
print(respond.status_code)
print(respond.headers['Content-Type'])

# Obtaining tree from the web page with the help of 'HTMLParser'
parser = etree.HTMLParser()
root = etree.fromstring(respond.text, parser)

# Showing the elements of the tree with tag 'a'
for element in root.iter('a'):
    print(element, element.attrib)