HTML parser in Python

Question

Using the Python Documentation I found the HTML parser but I have no idea which library to import to use it, how do I find this out (bearing in mind it doesn't say on the page).

Answer 1

There's a link to an example on the bottom of (http://docs.python.org/2/library/htmlparser.html) , it just doesn't work with the original python or python3. It has to be python2 as it says on the top.

Answer 2

I don't recommend BeautifulSoup if you want speed. lxml is much, much faster, and you can fall back in lxml's BS soupparser if the default parser doesn't work.