Modules for inclusion in standard library?

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

Max M wrote:
> 
> Another good bet is BeautifulSoup, which is absolutely great for
> scraping content from webpages.
> 
> http://crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/index.html
> 

Not if you want to handle HTML in anything but ASCII.  BeautifulSoup
insists you change your site.py to change the default encoding if you
want to use non-ASCII.  It might work beautifully, but I won't use it,
at least not until it's fixed to understand encodings.

Metta,
Ivan
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