Thread: Calibre and parsers, info please
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Old 07-21-2011, 09:40 AM   #1
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Calibre and parsers, info please
Please could someone guide me in the right direction.

I'm still feeling my way with Python and object-oriented stuff in general. To date, when I have been analysing epub opfs and occasionally htmls, I have achieved what I needed using regex. However, on poking around calibre source I see parsers being used, namely BeautifulSoup and lxml etree.

I haven't used a parser before, but it looks like something I ought to explore. What I would like to know is, under what circumstances might I choose to use BeautifulSoup rather than lxml etree, and vice versa?
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