Tina I wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a small, probably trivial even, problem. I have the following HTML:
>> <b>
>> METAR:
>> </b>
>> ENBR 270920Z 00000KT 9999 FEW018 02/M01 Q1004 NOSIG
>> <br />
>> <b>
>> short-TAF:
>> </b>
>> ENBR 270800Z 270918 VRB05KT 9999 FEW020 SCT040
>> <br />
>> <b>
>> long-TAF:
>> </b>
>> ENBR 271212 VRB05KT 9999 FEW020 BKN030 TEMPO 2012 2000 SNRA VV010
>> BECMG 2124 15012KT
>> <br />
>
> I need to make this into a dictionary like this:
>
> dictionary = {"METAR:" : "ENBR 270920Z 00000KT 9999 FEW018 02/M01 Q1004
> NOSIG" , "short-TAF:" : "ENBR 270800Z 270918 VRB05KT 9999 FEW020 SCT040"
> , "long-Taf:" : "ENBR 271212 VRB05KT 9999 FEW020 BKN030 TEMPO 2012 2000
> SNRA VV010 BECMG 2124 15012KT"}
>
> I have played around with BeautifulSoup but I'm stuck at stripping off
> the tags and chop it up to what I need to put in the dict. If someone
> can offer some hints or example to get me going I would greatly
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks!
> Tina
Forgot to mention that the "METAR:", "short-TAF", and "long-TAF" is
always named as such wheras the line of data ("ENBR 271212 VRB05KT 9999
FEW020 BKN030 TEMPO 2012 2000 SNRA VV010 ") is dynamic and can be
anything...
Tina
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