I haven't seen a lot of discussion on this - maybe I didn't search hard
enough - but what are people's thoughts on including BeautifulSoup in
stdlib? It's small, fast, and pretty widely-liked by the people who know
about it. Someone mentioned that web scraping needs are infrequent. My
argument is that people ask questions about them less because they feel
they can just reinvent the wheel really easily using urllib and regexes.
It seems like this is similar to the CSV problem from a while back
actually, with everyone implementing their own parsers.
We do have HTMLParser, but that doesn't handle malformed pages well, and
just isn't as nice as BeautifulSoup.
In a not-entirely-unrelated vein, has there been any discussion on just
throwing all of Mechanize into stdlib?
BeautifulSoup: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
mechanize: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
Regards,
Vaibhav Mallya
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