[Python-talk] Beautiful Soup

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:31:54AM -0400, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 10:31 -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:45:17AM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> > > 
> > > So I've finally found a project that gives me an excuse to learn and use
> > > Beautiful Soup.  The downside is that the DNS for crummy.com seems to be
> > > down.  (Interestingly, they only have 1 nameserver listed ... I had
> > > thought that was against the rfc's).  In any case, I've emailed the
> > > author to offer to help with DNS problems, but in the meantime I was
> > > wondering if anybody here knew where I could get a fairly recent copy of
> > > the install tarball for Beautiful Soup?  
> > 
> > http://crschmidt.net/python/BeautifulSoup.py
> > 
> > Looks like it's 3.04, a 2007 version, and I don't think the code is
> > changing that much. (Note that I've never been aware of an 'install
> > tarball' -- the 'source' is just that one file, as far as I've ever used
> > it.)
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> python-BeautifulSoup appears to be the package name for the fedora
> related distributions.  There's a fair chance Debian uses the same name.

Debian doesn't like upper case in package names. 

crschmidt at rainier:~$ apt-cache search beautiful | grep soup
python-beautifulsoup - error-tolerant HTML parser for Python


:)

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer