[Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib?

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Wed Mar 4 19:10:03 CET 2009


James Y Knight schrieb:
> On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
> 
>> Vaibhav Mallya wrote:
>>> We do have HTMLParser, but that doesn't handle malformed pages  
>>> well, and just isn't as nice as BeautifulSoup.
>>
>> Interesting, given that BeautifulSoup is built on HTMLParser ;-)
> 
> I think html5lib would be a better candidate for an imrpoved HTML  
> parser in the stdlib than BeautifulSoup.

I second that.

Georg



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