[Web-SIG] SelectORacle

John J Lee jjl at pobox.com
Mon Nov 17 13:41:07 EST 2003


On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Simon Willison wrote:

> John J Lee wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, David Fraser wrote:
> > Where do people use CSS parsers outside of graphical web browsers?
>
> For implementing search engine spiders. A common trick used by search
[...]

*Are* there any internet search engine spiders written in Python, other
than Google's?  Independent of the answer to that, though, how many people
write internet search engine spiders?  Not enough to justify a CSS parser
in the standard library!


John



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