Python is of course a smaller language, so the libraries aren't as extensive as the Perl counterparts. Also, I find the documentation somewhat lacking (or it could be me being new to the language).
You may find that the threads and exceptions in Python more than make up for anything you are missing in Perl. The Python libraries are not as extensive, but that is mostly because they have one of everything instead of five or six of everything.
Yup, that's why I'm learning Python! I got tired of the "after the fact" object orientation and the sometimes maddening syntax of Perl.
Extracting links using a regular HTML parser works fine, and isn't that much work. One of the major issues in an HTML parser is dealing with all the illegal HTML on the web.
Yes, in fact I found some very good examples on the website "Dive Into Python", including how to do a linkextor. Quite simple. http://diveintopython.org/html_processing/extracting_data.html This uses SGMLParser which presumably is more tolerant on illegal HTML.
Still wonder how to handle logins, though...
/petter
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