Parsing HTML using Python

Question

I\'m looking for an HTML Parser module for Python that can help me get the tags in the form of Python lists/dictionaries/objects.

If I have a document of the form:

Answer 1

I recommend lxml for parsing HTML. See "Parsing HTML" (on the lxml site).

In my experience Beautiful Soup messes up on some complex HTML. I believe that is because Beautiful Soup is not a parser, rather a very good string analyzer.