In message <0af3e9b1-8d3d-4efd-99d6-ca033204e...@n26g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Devon wrote:
> I have heard about Beautiful Soup but never used it. BeautifulSoup is intended for HTML parsing. It is, or was, particularly good at dealing with badly-formed HTML, as commonly found on lots of websites. I think more recently some libraries changed out from under it, so I’m not sure if this is still true. XML is (officially) much more anal in its compliance, so you shouldn’t need to bend over backwards to parse it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list