I've recently been writing a web app with libxml2dom ( http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/libxml2dom.html
). I had a look at BeautifulSoup and found the two very similar. I
ended up sticking with libxml2dom because of a quote from its
website...... "Performance is fairly respectable since libxml2dom
makes direct use of libxml2mod - the low-level wrapping of libxml2 for
Python."..... I figured the app might parse through a little faster.
I guess the only way to tell is to benchmark the two against
eachother. Does anyone have input on defining differences? Reasons
to use one over the other? Opinions welcome.
On Jun 5, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote:
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>>urllib2 will grab the HTML. BeautifulSoup will parse it and allow
>>fairly easy access. My writeup on each:
I'll second Kent's vote for BeautifulSoup.
I had never done any web programming, but using BS I quickly wrote a
small program that downloads an image from a site.
The image changes daily, and the filename & directory are obviously
unique. BS made it very easy.
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