Re: Program inefficiency?

On Sep 29, 2:32 pm, hall.j...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

It think he's saying it should look like this:

(line noise snipped)

Or you can let BeautifulSoup do the dirty job for you and forget all
this ugliness:


from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(text)
for a in soup.findAll('a'):
for attr in 'href','name':
val = a.get(attr)
if val:
a[attr] = val.replace(' ','_')
print soup


George

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