[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib HTMLParser.py,NONE,1.1 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Fri, 18 May 2001 11:49:25 -0400

guido wrote: > A much improved HTML parser -- a replacement for sgmllib. The API is > derived from but not quite compatible with that of sgmllib, so it's a > new file. I suppose it needs documentation, and htmllib needs to be > changed to use this instead of sgmllib, and sgmllib needs to be > declared obsolete.

any reason this cannot be made compatible with sgmllib?

The sgmllib API design has a few real bogosities. I can't recall what they were, but we looked into keeping it compatible, and it wasn't worth the pain.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)