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I think the idea behind BS is that it saves some typing and thinking for common scraping tasks. In that light, it fits perfectly on top of some other (faster) p
by wladimir 15y ago
I think the idea behind BS is that it saves some typing and thinking for common scraping tasks. In that light, it fits perfectly on top of some other (faster) parsing library.
- sho_hn 15y agoYup, but all of the stuff in the Quick Start section of http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ has more or less close equivalents in lxml.html. That being said, I think it's great that he's still maintaining BS, and porting it to Python 3 in particular - it keeps existing code working and will allow more people to make the switch. And a responsible and committed maintainer is good advertising for a package in itself, of course.