Where to get BeautifulSoup--www.crummy.com appears to be down.

[John Nagle]

Tim Golden wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:
>> Mike Driscoll wrote:
>>> Ken,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Kenneth McDonald
>>> <kenneth.m.mcdonald at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>> Sadly.
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks,
>>>>  Ken
>>>>  --
>>>>  http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've attached the 2.4 version. I also have some Windows binaries for
>>> Beautiful Soup uploaded to my website:
>>> http://www.pythonlibrary.org/python_modules.htm
>>
>>    What on earth do you need a "Windows binary" for?  "BeautifulSoup"
>> is ONE PYTHON SOURCE FILE, "BeautifulSoup.py".
> 
> Ummm.. Why does it bother you? Mike seems to be offering a public
> service to Windows users: by downloading the .exe, I can double-click
> on one file, have the module or package installed (whether it contains
> one .py file or twenty or a series of compiled extension modules and 
> their respective DLLs) and for a bonus it's registered in the system
> packages directory [*] and is therefore uninstallable from there.

     Executing strange executables is risky.  One always wonders what
else they install in addition to what they're supposed be installing.

					John Nagle