Phillip B Oldham wrote: > I'm going to throw together a quick project over the weekend: a > spider. I want to scan a website for certain elements. > > I come from a PHP background, so normally I'd: > - throw together a quick REST script to handle http request/responses
Use the urllib/urllib2 module in the stdlib for GET/POST with parameters or lxml for simple page requests. > - load the pages into a simplexml object and > - run an xpath over the dom to find the nodes I need to test Use lxml. http://codespeak.net/lxml/ Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
