[Python-Dev] HTMLParser and HTML5 (original) (raw)

Glyph Lefkowitz glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Fri Jul 29 20:03:02 CEST 2011

On Jul 29, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:

Joao S. O. Bueno, 29.07.2011 13:22:

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:

Brett Cannon, 28.07.2011 23:49:

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:25, Matt wrote:

- What policies are in place for keeping parity with other HTML parsers (such as those in web browsers)? There aren't any beyond "it would be nice". [...] It's more of an issue of someone caring enough to do the coding work to bring the parser up to spec for HTML5 (or introduce new code to live beside the HTML4 parsing code). Which, given that html5lib readily exists, would likely be a lot more work than anyone who is interested in HTML5 handling would want to invest. I don't think we need a new HTML5 parsing implementation only to have it in the stdlib. That's the old sunny Java way of doing it. I disaagree. Having proper html parsing out of the box is part of the "batteries included" thing. Well, you can easily prove me wrong by implementing this. Stefan

Please don't implement this just to profe Stefan wrong :).

The thing to do, if you want html parsing in the stdlib, is to incorporate html5lib, which is already a perfectly good, thoroughly tested HTML parser, and simply deprecate HTMLParser and friends. Implementing a new parser would serve no purpose I can see.

-glyph

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