Daniel,
It was kind of you to respond, and your response was a model of clarity.
You correctly surmised from my awkward framing of the question, that what
I wanted was a list of sibling elements between one named anchor and the
next. My problem was, in part, that I still don't think in terms of
> anchors = soup.findAll('a', { 'name' : re.compile('^A.*$')})
> for x in anchors:
>print x
>x = x.next
>while getattr(x, 'name') != 'a':
> print x
> And get into endless loops. I can't help thinking there are simple and
> obvious ways to do this, probably many, but as a rank beg
As a complete tyro, I've broken my teeth on this web-page scraping
problem. I've several times wanted to scrape pages in which the only
identifying elements are positional rather than syntactical, that is,
pages in which everything's a sibling and there's no way to predict how
many sibs there a
