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On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 5:05:39 PM UTC-6, John Salerno wrote:
> > Anything that allows me NOT to use REs is welcome news, so I look forwa=
rd to learning about something new! :)
>=20
> I should ask though...are there alternatives already bundled with Python =
that I could use? Now that you mention it, I remember something called HTML=
Parser (or something like that) and I have no idea why I never looked into =
that before I messed with REs.
>=20
> Thanks.

::sigh:: I'm having some trouble with the new Google Groups interface. It s=
eems to double post, and in this case didn't post at all. If it did already=
, I apologize. I'll try to figure out what's happening, or just switch to a=
 real newsgroup program.

Anyway, my question was about Beautiful Soup. I read on the doc page that B=
S uses a parser, which html.parser and lxml are. So I'm guessing the differ=
ence between them is that the parser is a little more "low level," whereas =
BS offers a higher level approach to using them? Is BS easier to write code=
 with, while still using the power of lxml?