lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library. I just wish I could get the wretched thing to install on OS X Leopard without resorting to MacPorts.
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lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library. I just wish I could get the wretched thing to install on OS X Leopard without resorting to MacPorts.
I'm not a developer on OS X, but this may be of help to you:
http://mockit.blogspot.com/2008/11/lxml-you-can-ba nk-on.html
Apparently you can build a static library to use with the lxml module.
I tried both the static deps and normal build process on Ubuntu at work the other day and the build process blew up quite craptacularly. Apt-get works fine btw, but I wanted a glimpse of what I would face on the Leopard platform at home. I think there is a reason this library is underappreciated == underused. Programmers need better naming SAX should be MAX simple==minimal, minimal implies more work required on the modules user while simple implies a very easy to use. But I digress...
PN - 11th December 2008 20:38 - #