Comments on: A Quick Look at ElementTree (and a bit about ’sar’)

By: m0j0

m0j0 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:13:08 +0000

Not only heard of Munin, but have used it, but it’s not suitable for one of the sites I currently work on due to some environmental weirdness that I might explain someday. Still, thanks for the link - someone else may find it useful.

By: nobody

nobody — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:53:29 +0000

You’ve not heard of munin then?

http://munin.projects.linpro.no/

Here’s a nice example:
http://munin.ping.uio.no/ping.uio.no/rossum.ping.uio.no.html

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:53:36 +0000

If you feel that you’re starting to “get” ET and wants to work with arbitrary HTML, this “mashup” library might be useful:

http://effbot.org/zone/element-soup.htm

By: Lexx

Lexx — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:47:46 +0000

Take a look at lxml http://codespeak.net/lxml/ , it provides Etree as an api and also a nice Xpath function for querying.

Don’t know if you will need/like to use Xpath, but for querying complex XML is a godsend.

By: m0j0

m0j0 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:47:54 +0000

Yeah, I downloaded a copy and just noticed that. Thanks. If I’m not mistaken though, just judging by my experience as a planet site *user* (I also deployed planet once), is I don’t think planet outputs any javascript, so it’s not likely to be a useful model for me to use in doing that. Seems like there would be some kind of library that will let you create an instance of a Python object and then somehow print it as a javascript object. I’m taking the tack now of basically setting up all of the data I need and then munging it together with plain text that will be printed out and look (and hopefully act) like javascript. This seems messy, but this probably isn’t something that is done a whole lot I guess. I do very little web development, though, so I thought I’d ask some folks who do more of it.