Python: ImportError: No module named 'HTMLParser' [duplicate]

Question

I am new to Python. I have tried to ran this code but I am getting an error message for ImportError: No module named 'HTMLParser'. I am using Python 3.x. Any reason why this is not working ?

#Import the HTMLParser model from HTMLParser import HTMLParser  #Create a subclass and override the handler methods class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):  #Function to handle the processing of HTML comments     def handle_comment(self,data):         print ("Encountered comment: ", data)         pos = self.getpos()         print ("At line: ", pos[0], "position ", pos[1])  def main():     #Instantiate the parser and feed it some html     parser= MyHTMLParser()      #Open the sample file and read it     f = open("myhtml.html")     if f.mode== "r":         contents= f.read()  #read the entire FileExistsError         parser.feed()   if __name__== "__main__":     main() 

I am getting the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "C:\Users\bm250199\workspace\test\htmlparsing.py", line 3, in <module>     from HTMLParser import HTMLParser ImportError: No module named 'HTMLParser' 

Answer 1

The module is called html.parser in Python 3. So you need to change your import to reflect that new name:

from html.parser import HTMLParser 

You should always check the standard library documentation to make sure that you are importing the right things from the right location.