Comments on: Snake Soup

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:50:54 +0000

By: Andi

Andi — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:48:20 +0000

Just to let you know: ForumMatrix now has Secunia advisories. WikiMatrix will follow when it’s upgraded to the new software.

By: HarryF

HarryF — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:14:18 +0000

Your code snippet thing doesn’t appear to actually support Python that well either

Thankyou ;) Actually – improvements appreciated.

By: Hal9k

Hal9k — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:22:50 +0000

Another Python article! *yay*

Can’t wait till Python 2.5!

It’s such a shame this beautiful language doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

By: binjured

binjured — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:24:02 +0000

Are my eyes playing tricks on me? Python code in a Sitepoint article??? *marks calendar*

Really though, thanks for the info, this may come in handy! I am just jaded due to the lack of Python coverage and specific forum here at SP ;) Your code snippet thing doesn’t appear to actually support Python that well either :(

By: HarryF

HarryF — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:31:08 +0000

Do you happen to know if anything like this is available for PHP? :)

No exactly but html_tidy + “something” e.g. PEAR’s XML_Serializer or SimpleXML (for DOM-like data structures) could be used to a similar effect, but you’d be spending more time to searching data structures.

One thing that’s nice about Beautiful soup is the tag search capabilities, for example consider this from the above script;
imgs = pre.findAll(name='img', src='images/arrright.gif', limit=5) if len(imgs) > 0: return page + 1
That allowed me to hunt for img tags with attribute src=’images/arrright.gif’ – these only exist on MARC if there are more than 30 messages list (”Next page” link basically) [side note - that limit=5 is redundant - should have changed that], so I can use it to check whether I need to fetch any more pages.

Its the search API most of all that makes BeautifulSoup attactive over something html_tidy based.

By: Fenrir2

Fenrir2 — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:41:46 +0000

html_tidy

By: coffee_ninja

coffee_ninja — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:22:57 +0000

Do you happen to know if anything like this is available for PHP? :)

By: HarryF

HarryF — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:01:58 +0000

Seems that could be done: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html#Replacing%20one%20Element%20with%20Another

By: Matthew Magain

Matthew Magain — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:42:57 +0000
Even more beautiful would be if it converted Aargh! to Aargh!