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Old 03-01-2011, 02:46 PM   PM User | #10
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Originally Posted by Apothem View Post
It seems you are making a lot of incorrect assumptions about what I know and what I want. Your response is a fallacy. Just because you know that this module makes scraping easier does not mean its performance is better than using RegEx. Therefore your retort is invalid.

Regardless, this thread is done. My questions have "long" been (more than needed to) answered by oesxyl.
thank you,
i agree that using regex in a specific case for a given task, is many time faster then a general parser. But are only few parser who implement error recovery and dealing with errors and invalid markup, Samhain13 is right about BeautifulSoup. I just notice that i didn't even mention about this problem, my bad,

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