On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:41:10 -0700, mukesh tiwari wrote: > Hello All, > I am doing web stuff first time in python so I am looking for > suggestions. I wrote this code to download the title of webpages using > as much less resource ( server time, data download) as possible and > should be fast enough. Initially I used BeautifulSoup for parsing but > the person who is going to use this code asked me not to use this and > use regular expressions ( The reason was BeautifulSoup is not fast > enough ? ).
By the time you have written enough RE to reliably parse HTML(I ma not sure that that is even strictly possible) you will have re-inverted BeautifullSoup, Badly. unless you are looking for a very explicit section of data in the page this is not a good idea. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list