[XML-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] HTML parsing: anyone use formatter?

Jeremy Fincher fincher.8 at osu.edu
Thu Oct 30 16:03:15 EST 2003


On Thursday 30 October 2003 02:27 pm, amk at amk.ca wrote:
> I suppose the more general question is, does anyone use Python's formatter
> module?  Do we want to keep it around, or should htmllib be pushed toward
> doing just HTML parsing?  formatter.py is a long way from being able to
> handle modern web pages and it would be a lot of work to build a decent
> renderer.

I've never used it myself, though I'll admit that some software I've used (for 
searching the IMDB) does use it.

Jeremy



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