Gist for parsing the HTML file of acrynms from http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php into a CSV

Clean.py

__author__ = 'danielkershaw'
import urllib2
import BeautifulSoup
import csv

def main():
    response = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php')
    html = response.read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(html)
    div = soup.find("div", {"class": "list_box3"})
    div = div.findAll("li")
    abbrevlist = {}

    for d in div:
        abbrevlist[d.find('a').contents[0]] = d.contents[1]

    f = csv.writer(open('dict.csv', 'wb'))
    for key, value in abbrevlist.items():
        f.writerow([key, value])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()