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1. Daniel Devine Python

   Trying to get familiar with #BeautifulSoup so I can make a script to parse a HTML table and output #RSS in !python

   Thursday, 11-Nov-10 07:55:00 UTC from web at Fairfield, Queensland, Australia
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   • Samat K Jain

     @ddevine Have you taken a look at lxml.html? It's simpler for some things, and faster.

     Thursday, 11-Nov-10 08:02:57 UTC
   • Daniel Devine Samat K Jain

     @samatjain I did look at lxml.html but I found beautiful soup easier to understand.

     Sunday, 14-Nov-10 23:19:17 UTC
   • Samat K Jain

     @ddevine It depends on what you're doing. Take a look at http://ur1.ca/2ckcf

     Sunday, 14-Nov-10 23:34:01 UTC
   • Samat K Jain

     @ddevine But I have to agree, the lxml docs are sort of crap

     Sunday, 14-Nov-10 23:35:12 UTC
   • Samat K Jain Python

     @ddevine By the way, also useful is pyQuery (jQuery-like API for !Python, based on lxml) http://ur1.ca/2ckef

     Sunday, 14-Nov-10 23:43:13 UTC
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   • Daniel Devine Samat K Jain

     @samatjain Cool. I'll check it out!

     Monday, 15-Nov-10 00:42:58 UTC