I am using Python's HTMLParser from html.parser module. I am looking for a single tag and when it is found it would make sense to stop the parsing. Is this possible? I tried to call close() but I am not sure if this is the way to go.

class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        login_form = False
        if tag == "form":
            print("finished")
            self.close()

However this seems to have recursive effects ending with

  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/re.py", line 282, in _compile
    p, loc = _cache[type(pattern), pattern, flags]
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison