Alan Gauld <alan.gauld <at> btinternet.com> writes: > DSL? Good to know the term/acronym is not ubiquitous. I was going for succinct, possibly too succinct...
> Have you looked at the existing web scraping tools in Python? > There are several to pick from. They all avoid the kind of mess > you describe. I'm familiar with a few of them. I've used beautiful soup, PyQuery, and cssselect. I got frustrated with my scraping code and wrote the DSL. It's still in the "proving ground" phase of things. A later post asked about a real-world sample, I'm going to work something up. > And how is that run? > What is the syntax for the config file? > It is not self evident. The other example on github is no less obscure. > I'm sure it means something to you but it is not obvious. > > OK, I see there is much more on the github. Sadly too much for me to > plough through just now. Thanks for looking. > I think the main python list is a better bet for feedback on something > of this size. I wasn't sure if this was sort of at that level, thanks for the suggestion. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
