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hartror on Oct 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Python For The Web

I was a little surpised that lxml is used in this example over Beautiful Soup. Any reason?

pjscott on Oct 19, 2011 [–]

It's much faster than Beautiful Soup, better maintained, and does an excellent job of handling crazy broken HTML.

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