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

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Fri Jul 29 20:31:50 CEST 2011

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On 07/29/2011 07:22 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:

I disaagree. Having proper html parsing out of the box is part of the "batteries included" thing. And it is not a matter of "having html 5" - as stated on this thread, fixing it for html5 will fix it for html that exists in the "real world".

Python has to work with quick 30-50 lines scripts deliverable everywhere, not just has proper 3rd party libraries that can work as part of a huge project using buildout.

Assuming it were merged today, that parser would only be available on Python 3.3 and later: how is that "everywhere"? Having scripts that work against html5lib (which doesn't need buildout to install, or even setuptools) makes them portable to any version of Python supported by the library (Python 2.3+, AFAICT).

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