Not catching HTMLParser.HTMLParseError from unclosed tag

[turbodog]

>>>import html2text

>>>html2text.__version__

'3.02'

>>>html2text.html2text('<p')

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in

File "html2text.py", line 450, in html2text

return optwrap(html2text_file(html, None, baseurl))

File "html2text.py", line 447, in html2text_file

return h.close()

File "html2text.py", line 185, in close

HTMLParser.HTMLParser.close(self)

File "C:\dev\python27\lib\HTMLParser.py", line 112, in close

self.goahead(1)

File "C:\dev\python27\lib\HTMLParser.py", line 164, in goahead

self.error("EOF in middle of construct")

File "C:\dev\python27\lib\HTMLParser.py", line 115, in error

raise HTMLParseError(message, self.getpos())

HTMLParser.HTMLParseError: EOF in middle of construct, at line 1, column 1

Is it possible to append a '>' or drop the whole tag and retry without passing the exception up?

FWIW, first parsing the HTML with BeautifulSoup eliminates the unclosed tag and html2text suceeds.

[jlward]

I saw this as well. This issue is fixed in python2.7 because of an update in HTMLParser. You should be able to backport the 2.7 version to fix this issue.

[jlward]

I created a backport and put it on Pypi. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/HTMLParser