I agree that's the most interesting example, but I also think it falls completely under "office automation". It's not much more complicated to state with lxml (

I agree that's the most interesting example, but I also think it falls completely under "office automation". It's not much more complicated to state with lxml (or curl + grep) than it is to state in text if you are fluent with your tools, but it's a bigger hurdle for the average Excel user. But the example is not terribly useful for a programmer to use in a bigger project, because "put it in a CSV" is too loosely specified for further automation. You would at least need it to be in a specific character set, a specific encoding (html entities or not, BOM or not), specify what to do with invalid entries, the fact that some entries are required and some optional, etc. Even with this simplified example, specifying all these details if what takes time for a programmer, not typing out the code to do it. Edit: Perhaps I should explain, the reason I'm thinking about this is because I am currently spending a lot of time making these sort of bite sized, well specified, and useful work for a junior developer to get up to speed with. It really is a lot of work.