Re: Mutating an HTML file with BeautifulSoup

2022-08-21 Thread Buck Evan
I've had much success doing round trips through the lxml.html parser. https://lxml.de/lxmlhtml.html I ditched bs for lxml long ago and never regretted it. If you find that you have a bunch of invalid html that lxml inadvertently "fixes", I would recommend adding a stutter-step to your project: p

Re: New Python implementation

2021-02-15 Thread Buck Evan
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 1:49 PM dn via Python-list wrote: > When I first met it, one of the concepts I found difficult to 'wrap my > head around' was the idea that "open software" allowed folk to fork the > original work and 'do their own thing'. My thinking was (probably) > "surely, the original

Re: Explicit vararg values

2018-09-22 Thread Buck Evan
Received? On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 3:39 PM Buck Evan wrote: > I started to send this to python-ideas, but I'm having second thoughts. > Does tihs have merit? > > --- > I stumble on this a lot, and I see it in many python libraries: > > def f(*args, **kwargs): > .

Explicit vararg values

2018-09-17 Thread Buck Evan
I started to send this to python-ideas, but I'm having second thoughts. Does tihs have merit? --- I stumble on this a lot, and I see it in many python libraries: def f(*args, **kwargs): ... f(*[list comprehension]) f(**mydict) It always seems a shame to carefully build up an object in order