"Stefan Behnel" <[email protected]> wrote
"pedro" <[email protected]> wrote
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction as
far as the best way to use python to update html.
There are a number of modules in the standard library that can help but
the best known module for this is BeautifulSoup
I would call that statement highly exaggerated.
http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/03/30/python-html-parser-performance/
There may be a language thing at work here but by "best known module"
I do not mean Beautiful Soup is the best of all known modules, rather it
is the module which is most widely known of the non standard HTML
packages. I stand by that. It is also, arguably, one of the easiest to use
and well behaved with non compliant html - ie most web pages - and it
has reasonable documentation and support.
Ian B's article considers parser performance and Beautiful Soup has
never claimed to be the fastest!
I hope that clarifies any confusion.
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