What was that web interaction library called again?

Michael Hoffman cam.ac.uk at mh391.invalid
Fri Jun 22 10:31:57 EDT 2007


Harald Korneliussen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I remember I came across a python library that made it radically
> simple to interact with web sites, connecting to gmail and logging in
> with four or five lines, for example. I thought, "that's interesting,
> I must look into it sometime". Now there's this child I know who asked
> me about programming, especially programs that could do things like
> this, how difficult it was, and so on. I mentioned how I though Python
> was a good intro to programming, and there was a library which was
> perfect for what he wanted.
> 
> Only now I've forgotten the name of the library! And try as I might, I
> can't find it with google. I know there are modules for it in the
> standard libraries, but this thing was brilliantly simple in
> comparison. It might have been some sort of research project, I can't
> remember... but perhaps someone here can remind me what it was? If so,
> there may be yet another young python programmer in training :-)

BeautifulSoup?
-- 
Michael Hoffman



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