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A comment on Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans. Parent comment

Re:Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans by friendlydude12 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @02:58PM (#16460840)
That’s just my preference. Keep the features that are best for your specific use cases. It’s your project after all. I think that’s better than design by committee. Linus didn’t write Linux for other people.
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Re:Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans by nojvek on Sunday February 25, 2018 @09:58PM (#16462730)
If you’re doing markdown conversion well, keep it. Apis are not about doing the smallest thing, it’s about designing a clean abstraction of a problem you’re trying to solve.
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Re:Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans by friendlydude12 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @10:30PM (#16462869)
Sure, if APIs existed within a vacuum. In the real world we have to worry about ease of packaging, ease of maintenance, and various other practical costs.
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