On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 19:22 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Use an actual HTML parser such as BeautifulSoup > > (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/) and your life will be > > much easier. > > BeautifulSoup is a lot simpler to use than RE's but a heck of a lot > slower. I ended up having to use RE's last time I had to scrape a lot > of pages.
True, but the OP said "extract information from a web page", not "from a lot of pages." Until BeautifulSoup is actually too slow for that job, going straight to RE is premature optimization. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
