Joe Farro <joe.farro <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Thanks, Peter. > > Peter Otten <__peter__ <at> web.de> writes: > > > Can you give a real-world example where your DSL is significantly cleaner > > than the corresponding code using bs4, or lxml.xpath, or lxml.objectify?
Peter, I worked up what I hope is a fairly representative example. It scrapes metadata from the 10 newest web-scraping questions on stackoverflow. It's done with bs4 and take. https://github.com/tiffon/take-examples/tree/master/samples/stackoverflow I've posted on the bs4 discussion group asking for feedback on the bs4 version to make sure it's up to snuff. (The post is in new-member purgatory, at the moment.) In my opinion, the fact that take lacks an ability to define sub-routines is a brutal deficiency. (As compared to defining functions like `get_poster_details()` and `get_comment_activity()` in the bs4 version.) On the bright side, I do like that the indentation of the take templates semi-reflect the structure of the HTML document. However, the indentation doesn't (always) reflect the hierarchy of the data being generated, which seems more clear. Feedback is definitely welcome. Thanks again! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
