[Chicago] BeautifulSoup gone bad

[Kumar McMillan]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Martin Maney <maney at two14.net> wrote:
>
> Version 3.1.0 is both slower and less robust than the previous release
> because it has changed to be usable in Python 3.0.
>
>  http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/3.1-problems.html

I have had a lot of success with lxml.html which is an alternative to
BeautifulSoup and is many orders of magnitude faster because it uses
libxml2:
http://codespeak.net/lxml/lxmlhtml.html

What's really nice is that you can use full xpath expressions on
crummy, poorly-formed HTML (the language of the Web!).  For a while
lxml was a bit unstable and hard to build on Mac but as of recent
versions I have not had any problems.

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> leading to neat one-liners; and Perl confuses everything period,
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