[Web-SIG] SelectORacle

[John J Lee]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Bill Janssen wrote:
[...]
> It's wrong to ask whether there spiders written in Python, I think.  A
> more interesting question is, how many times was Python rejected as a
> language in which to write crawlers because some other language had a
> better library?  I know of at least one such case here in the last year.
[...]

So, before anybody even considers a CSS parser in the standard library,
somebody has to write a python CSS parser (or wrap one), maintain it, and
see how many people use it.


John