HTMLTableParser

Parses all tables in a web page and return alist of them

This class walk through every tag on a web page and collects data from tables, returning a list of all found tables. Data rows are returned as sublists of every table found.

HTMLTableParser aims to collect the raw data found on <td> and <th> tags, said that, if we found:

   <td class="rowHeader"> 
       <strong>2,048</strong>MB RAM
       <div class="subtitle"><strong>80</strong>GB Disk</div> 
   </td>

will return "2,048 MB RAM 80 GB Disk" as a sublist element

HTMLTableParser extends HTMLParser class from HTMLParser Python standard library.

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