pick out title from HTML

htmltitle.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- 

import sys
import urllib2
import HTMLParser

html = urllib2.urlopen(sys.argv[1]).read()

class titleparser(HTMLParser.HTMLParser):
    title = unicode()
    titleflg = False

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == "title":
            self.titleflg = True

    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        if tag == "title":
            self.titleflg = False

    def handle_data(self, data):
        if self.titleflg:
            self.title += data.decode("utf-8")

    def handle_charref(self, ref):
        if self.titleflg:
            if ref.isdigit():
                self.title += unichr(int(ref))

p = titleparser()
p.feed(html)
print p.title