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Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements

From Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements
Date 2015-11-26 00:44 +0100
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On 26/11/15 00:06, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 9:48 AM, ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks!!  Is that regex?  Can you explain exactly what it is doing?
>> Also, it seems to pick up a lot more than just the list I wanted, but that's ok, I can see why it does that.
>>
>> Can you just please explain what it's doing???
>
> It's a trap!
>
> Don't use a regex to parse HTML, unless you're deliberately trying to
> entice young and innocent programmers to the dark side.
>
> ChrisA
>

Sorry, I wasn't aware of regex being on the dark side :-)
Now that you mention it, I suppose that their being complex and 
error-inducing could lead to broken code all too easily when there is a 
reliable, ready-made solution like BeautifulSoup.

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Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 12:42 -0800
  Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-11-25 20:55 +0000
    Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2015-11-25 23:30 +0100
      Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 14:48 -0800
        Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 10:06 +1100
          Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2015-11-26 00:44 +0100
            Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-26 01:53 +0200
              Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 10:59 +1100
            Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 10:54 +1100
            Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2015-11-26 02:05 +0100
        Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2015-11-26 00:33 +0100
          Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 15:37 -0800
            Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 10:42 +1100
  Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 14:04 -0800
    Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 09:10 +1100
  Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements TP <wingusr@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 17:15 -0800
  Re: Screen scraper to get all 'a title' elements Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 14:49 +0000

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