Paul Rubin wrote: > Generally I use urllib.read() to get > the whole html page as a string, then process it from there. I just > look for the substrings I'm interested in, making no attempt to > actually parse the html into a DOM or anything like that. > BeautifulSoup works *really* well when you want to parse the source (e.g. when you don't want to use string matching, or when the structures you're looking for are a bit too complicated for simple string matching/substring search)
The API of the package is extremely simple, straightforward and... obvious. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
