Re:Pyquery 0.2 : jQuery for Python
by thomasmallen on Friday December 05, 2008 @05:46PM
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The whole point of jQuery is to serve as a substitute for the DOM, allowing scripts to efficiently interact with page elements. If you're running this via a Python script, you already control each and every bit of your page code. What's the point? I can only see this being useful in Python for screen scraping.
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Scraping with BeautifulSoup works pretty well, but i've had a lot of problems with nested elements with no id since Xpath is not available on BeautifulSoup.
Perhaps this would make it a little easier. I'll report back after trying it.
For the time being it doesn't use the BeautifulSoup parser so it may not work on very bad html, but I'll add an option an option to use it.
It could be used to skin an application ala deliverance. Or as a templating language: you would only write html and then put stuff into it with python and pyquery (but I think the jquery API may not be good enough for that).