On Saturday 03 July 2010 19:33:44 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <pan.2010.06.29.09.35.18.594...@nowhere.com>, Nobody wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:30:36 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >>> Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What > >>> makes databases so special that they need a string-command based API? > >> > >> HTML is also effectively a string-based API. > > > > HTML is a data format. The sane way to construct or manipulate HTML is > > via the DOM, not string operations. > > What is this “DOM” of which you speak? I looked here > <http://docs.python.org/library/>, but can find nothing that sounds like > that, that is relevant to HTML. >
The Document Object Model - I don't think the standard library has an HTML DOM module but there's certainly one for XML (and XHTML): http://docs.python.org/library/xml.dom.html ---- Rami Chowdhury "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." -- Grey's Law +1-408-597-7068 / +44-7875-841-046 / +88-01819-245544 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
