将HTML列表转换为嵌套的Python列表

时间:2014-06-14 03:12:54

标签: python html html-parsing beautifulsoup html-parser

如果我有一个嵌套的html(无序)列表,如下所示:

<ul>
    <li><a href="Page1_Level1.html">Page1_Level1</a> 
    <ul>
        <li><a href="Page1_Level2.html">Page1_Level2</a> 
            <ul>
                <li><a href="Page1_Level3.html">Page1_Level3</a></li>
            </ul>
            <ul>
                <li><a href="Page2_Level3.html">Page2_Level3</a></li>
            </ul>
            <ul>
                <li><a href="Page3_Level3.html">Page3_Level3</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
    </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="Page2_Level1.html">Page2_Level1</a> 
    <ul>
        <li><a href="Page2_Level2.html">Page2_Level2</a></li>
    </ul>
    </li>
</ul>

如何在Python中构建嵌套列表?例如:

["Page1_Level1.html", ["Page1_Level2.html", ["Page1_Leve3.html", "Page2_Level3.html", "Page3_Level3.html"]], "Page2_Level1.html", ["Page2_Level2.html"]]

我认为像美丽的汤 HTML Parser 这样的图书馆有设施可以做到这一点,但我还没有能够弄明白。感谢您的帮助/指点!

2 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:3)

您可以采用递归方式:

from pprint import pprint
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

text = """your html goes here"""

def find_li(element):
    return [{li.a['href']: find_li(li)}
            for ul in element('ul', recursive=False)
            for li in ul('li', recursive=False)]


soup = BeautifulSoup(text, 'html.parser')
data = find_li(soup)
pprint(data)

打印:

[{u'Page1_Level1.html': [{u'Page1_Level2.html': [{u'Page1_Level3.html': []},
                                                 {u'Page2_Level3.html': []},
                                                 {u'Page3_Level3.html': []}]}]},
 {u'Page2_Level1.html': [{u'Page2_Level2.html': []}]}]

仅供参考,这就是为什么我必须在这里使用html.parser

答案 1 :(得分:1)

概述了可能的解决方案

# variable 'markup' contains the html string
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup)
for a in soup.descendants:
   # construct a nested list when going thru the descendants
   print id(a), id(a.parent) if a.parent else None, a