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Gets the EBNF of the Golang spec at https://golang.org/ref/spec
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getGolangEBNF.py
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
r = requests.get('http://golang.org/ref/spec')
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text)
bnf = soup.find_all('pre', class_='ebnf')
bnftxt = [x.get_text() for x in bnf]
bnftxt = ''.join(bnftxt)
with open('go-out.txt', 'w') as f:
f.write(bnftxt.encode('utf-8'))
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