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tdavis
on March 12, 2009
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Did You Know: BeautifulSoup's bits are rotting
Personally, I
far
prefer lxml to BeautifulSoup. The latter is incredibly slow and leaks memory like a sieve unless you manually tear apart object trees. Although, BS is easier to write in many cases. Just don't use it for any heavy work.
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