[Python-Dev] Python sidebar for Mozilla/Netscape (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:34:39 -0500

> I don't think so -- the google.py code doesn't read the Google output, > it tells your browser to read it. Big difference. (urlopen(), on the > other hand, would be a no-no.)

...but I disagree with your assertion about urlopen() -- as long as the output gets rendered directly by a browser-like interface for on-line interactive human use, I believe there's no contravention of the ToS. (If your assertion were correct, one wouldn't be able to write a browser in Python. ;-)

Yeah. I should probably have said "a program that uses urlopen and then parses the page it gets back for a different purpose than rendering it to a human".

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