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Is PyQuery fast? The whole premise of the first point was that BeautifulSoup was too slow, but then he didn't provide a comparison between them.

• tiramisou 14y ago
  It uses lxml, so yes it is fast.
  • streblo 14y ago
    So does BeautifulSoup
    • deleted 14y ago
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• kami8845 14y ago
  Hey Permit. This is a really good point. Looking at PyQuery's source code [0], it really does nothing in terms of parsing other than calling lxml's fromstring function and then works with the result of that when evaluating queries. So it would probably be a tad slower than pure lxml since it also does other bits (like checking for URLs and then fetching them for you) but from looking at the source code, I'd think that the overhead is minimal. [0] https://github.com/dsc/pyquery/blob/master/pyquery/pyquery.py#L179 https://github.com/dsc/pyquery/blob/master/pyquery/pyquery.p...
  • Jabbles 14y ago
    Do you have any more up-to-date data than a 2008 comparison?
    • kami8845 14y ago
      Hey, I commented on this a bit further down in the topic: http://www.crummy.com/2012/1/22/0 http://www.crummy.com/2012/1/22/0
• randallma 14y ago
  The comparison should be moot, because Beautiful Soup 4 uses the lxml parser when it's available: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#specifying-the-parser-to-use http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#specif...