[twill] beautifulSoup via twill?

Titus Brown titus at caltech.edu
Tue Jul 24 14:18:36 PDT 2007


On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:15:07PM +0100, John J Lee wrote:
-> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Titus Brown wrote:
-> [...]
-> > this is about what you have to do, yes.  It seems like a good idea to
-> > make a standardized API for it, though; do you have any thoughts on what
-> > that should be?
-> >
-> > Perhaps:
-> >
-> > import twill
-> > ...
-> > soup = twill.get_soup()
-> >
-> > is simple enough?
-> 
-> If that's a BS 2 object, perhaps the method name should reflect that, so 
-> that .get_soup() is reserved for returning BS 3 objects? 
-> .get_old_soup()?  .get_cold_soup()?-)

Updating mechanize to BS 3.0 was AFAICT a three-line issue, so maybe
I'll just do that ;).

--titus



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