Fred Drake wrote:
> I'd be in favor of keeping only HTMLParser, with a compliant module
> name ("htmlparser" doesn't seem unreasonable). The code was
> originally derived from htmllib for the Grail webbrowser, mostly to
> make things like attribute handling less painful.
Really? Cool. My first encounter with HTMLParser was when it was used
for Zope's ZPT engine.
I have memories of petitioning Guido to get it into the standard library
at the time, although I guess my petitioning and its real reason for
inclusion may have been coincidental.
It's been a while since I had to use an html parser directly, but from
what I remember, HTMLParser is much less of a PITA than the available
standard library alternatives...
cheers,
Chris
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