On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam
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> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 1:17 PM CEST Alan Gauld wrote:
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>>On 02/04/15 12:09, Dave Angel wrote:
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>>> Ah, Jon Bentley (notice the extra 'e'). I should dig out my *Pearls
>>> books, and have a trip down memor
Joe Farro gmail.com> writes:
> indentation doesn't (always) reflect the hierarchy of the data being
> generated, which seems more clear.
Meant to say:
However, the indentation doesn't (always) reflect the hierarchy of
the data being generated, which seems more clear **in the bs4
version**.
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Joe Farro gmail.com> writes:
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> Thanks, Peter.
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> Peter Otten <__peter__ web.de> writes:
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> > Can you give a real-world example where your DSL is significantly cleaner
> > than the corresponding code using bs4, or lxml.xpath, or lxml.objectify?
Peter, I worked up what I hope is a fairly
On 02/04/15 20:49, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
Yes, the Pearls books should be required reading
Is this the book you are referring to?
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Edition-Bentley/dp/0201657880
Yes thats it.
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Author of the Learn to Program web site
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On 04/02/2015 03:49 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 1:17 PM CEST Alan Gauld wrote:
On 02/04/15 12:09, Dave Angel wrote:
Ah, Jon Bentley (notice the extra 'e'). I should dig out my *Pearls
books, and have a trip down memory lane. I bet 95% of t
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 1:17 PM CEST Alan Gauld wrote:
>On 02/04/15 12:09, Dave Angel wrote:
>
>> Ah, Jon Bentley (notice the extra 'e'). I should dig out my *Pearls
>> books, and have a trip down memory lane. I bet 95% of those are still
>> useful, even if they refer
On 4/2/2015 4:22 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
There was somewhere in one of the books a list of 'good practice,'
including an item something like:
Solve the right problem.
There's a world of wisdom in that one alone.
+1
Emile
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Alan Gauld btinternet.com> writes:
> DSL?
Good to know the term/acronym is not ubiquitous. I was going for
succinct, possibly too succinct...
> Have you looked at the existing web scraping tools in Python?
> There are several to pick from. They all avoid the kind of mess
> you describe.
I'm fam
Thanks, Peter.
Peter Otten <__peter__ web.de> writes:
> Can you give a real-world example where your DSL is significantly cleaner
> than the corresponding code using bs4, or lxml.xpath, or lxml.objectify?
Yes, definitely. Will work something up.
> Your code on github looks good to me (too fe
Joe Farro wrote:
> The package implements a DSL that is intended to make web-scraping a bit
> more maintainable :)
>
> I generally find my scraping code ends up being rather chaotic with
> querying, regex manipulations, conditional processing, conversions, etc.,
> ending up being to close togethe
On 04/02/2015 07:17 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 02/04/15 12:09, Dave Angel wrote:
Ah, Jon Bentley (notice the extra 'e'). I should dig out my *Pearls
books, and have a trip down memory lane. I bet 95% of those are still
useful, even if they refer to much earlier versions of language(s).
Yes, t
On 02/04/15 12:09, Dave Angel wrote:
Ah, Jon Bentley (notice the extra 'e'). I should dig out my *Pearls
books, and have a trip down memory lane. I bet 95% of those are still
useful, even if they refer to much earlier versions of language(s).
Yes, the Pearls books should be required reading
On 04/02/2015 06:41 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 02/04/15 10:50, Dave Angel wrote:
On 04/02/2015 04:22 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
DSL?
This is "Domain Specific Language". This is a language built around a
specific problem domain,
Ah, Thanks Dave!
I am used to those being called simply "Little lang
On 02/04/15 10:50, Dave Angel wrote:
On 04/02/2015 04:22 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
DSL?
This is "Domain Specific Language". This is a language built around a
specific problem domain,
Ah, Thanks Dave!
I am used to those being called simply "Little languages" after the
famous Jon Bently ACM art
On 04/02/2015 04:22 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
DSL?
This is "Domain Specific Language". This is a language built around a
specific problem domain, in order to more easily express problems for
that domain than the usual general purpose languages.
I was a bit surprised to find few google matche
On 02/04/15 04:18, Joe Farro wrote:
Hello,
I recently wrote a python package and was wondering if anyone might have
time to review it?
This list is for people learning Python and answering questions
about the core language and standard library. I suspect this is
more appropriate to the main py
Hello,
I recently wrote a python package and was wondering if anyone might have
time to review it?
I'm fairly new to python - it's been about 1/2 of my workload at work for
the past year. Any suggestions would be super appreciated.
https://github.com/tiffon/take
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tak
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