[repost] Does standard python have BeautifulSoup (or something like it) ?

[steve]

Hi,

I had sent this question below a couple of months ago but didn't receive any 
replies. I forgot about it though, since I had moved on to using BeautifulSoup. 
Now however, I am wondering why something like this is not present in the 
standard lib. What is the accepted procedure to propose the inclusion of some 
module in our beloved 'batteries included' library ?

I'd like to see this module (or something similar) included.

regards,
- steve

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Does standard python have BeautifulSoup (or something like it) ?
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:51:31 +0200
To: python-list at python.org

Hi,

After a long time, I decided to play with some web site scraping and realized 
that for all the batteries included approach, the standard python lib (still) 
does not have a simple to use html parser (ie: one which does not require one to 
implement a class just to extract the url of a image tag) ...or does it ?

I like BeautifulSoup, which I used once long ago, but would prefer to use 
something which is part of the standard lib. Is there a module that I completely 
  missed ? (btw, I'm using python-2.6. If not in 2.6 is there something in like 
BeautifulSoup in 3.0 ?)

regards,
- steve