from lxml import html
etree = html.etree

html_str = """
<html><head><title>The Dormouse's story</title></head>
<body>
<p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>
<p class="story">Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were
<a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="link1"><!-- Elsie --></a>,
<a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="link2"><!-- Lacie --></a> and
<a href="http://example.com/tillie" class="sister" id="link3">Tillie</a>;
and they lived at the bottom of a well.</p>
<p class="story">...</p>
"""

html = etree.HTML(html_str)
result = etree.tostring(html)
print(result)

html = etree.HTML(html_str)
urls = html.xpath(".//*[@class='sister']/@href")
print(urls)