Comments for Discretized Continuity http://davidshimel.com programming by David Shimel Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:26:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Conway’s Game of Life in Processing.js by Life and polyominoes | cartesian product http://davidshimel.com/conways-game-of-life-in-processing-js/#comment-3216 Life and polyominoes | cartesian product Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:26:02 +0000 http://davidshimel.com/?p=159#comment-3216 [...] Conway’s Game of Life in Processing.js (davidshimel.com) [...]

]]> Comment on Reverse Engineering OKCupid by Doug Englebart http://davidshimel.com/reverse-engineering-okcupid/#comment-552 Doug Englebart Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:38:01 +0000 http://davidshimel.com/?p=188#comment-552 If you don’t need much sophisticated html parsing, you can get away with regexes.

]]> Comment on Reverse Engineering OKCupid by InvestmentTheorist http://davidshimel.com/reverse-engineering-okcupid/#comment-244 InvestmentTheorist Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:43:57 +0000 http://davidshimel.com/?p=188#comment-244 It’s an honor to be arguing with Linus himself :)
I’ve used both BeautifulSoup and lxml, and I’d say that while lxml is probably the preferred solution in production with its speed, clean interface, and built-in xpath support, BeautifulSoup can still be useful for a quick hack or dealing with severely broken HTML.

]]> Comment on Reverse Engineering OKCupid by Stephen http://davidshimel.com/reverse-engineering-okcupid/#comment-225 Stephen Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:38:15 +0000 http://davidshimel.com/?p=188#comment-225 Why not both?

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#installing-a-parser

]]> Comment on Conway’s Game of Life in Processing.js by Robin http://davidshimel.com/conways-game-of-life-in-processing-js/#comment-209 Robin Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:43:56 +0000 http://davidshimel.com/?p=159#comment-209 Yo David! Just wanted to say, this inspired me to look into Processing.js. I created a cellular automata simulator at http://robinforest.net/.

I like the circular cells and rainbow colors in yours, looks pretty sweet.

]]> Comment on Reverse Engineering OKCupid by Gabe Newell http://davidshimel.com/reverse-engineering-okcupid/#comment-189 Gabe Newell Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:00:01 +0000 http://davidshimel.com/?p=188#comment-189 I third Dennis and Linus’ recommendation to use lxml. If you can’t get away with straight up regex, lxml with save you some CPU cycles.

]]> Comment on Reverse Engineering OKCupid by Twirrim http://davidshimel.com/reverse-engineering-okcupid/#comment-182 Twirrim Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:54:54 +0000 http://davidshimel.com/?p=188#comment-182 You call 6 months since the last release “quite some time” and “abandoned’? What interesting definitions you have.

]]> Comment on Reverse Engineering OKCupid by Simon Sapin http://davidshimel.com/reverse-engineering-okcupid/#comment-180 Simon Sapin Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:48:36 +0000 http://davidshimel.com/?p=188#comment-180 Don’t worry, lxml also has an HTML parser. Or three.
http://lxml.de/lxmlhtml.html (fastest)
http://lxml.de/html5parser.html (conforming to HTML5)
http://lxml.de/elementsoup.html (better encoding detection, or so I read.)

Also, CSS selectors: http://lxml.de/cssselect.html

]]> Comment on Reverse Engineering OKCupid by Soli http://davidshimel.com/reverse-engineering-okcupid/#comment-176 Soli Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:30:32 +0000 http://davidshimel.com/?p=188#comment-176 lxml is perfectly able to parse HTML, see http://lxml.de/lxmlhtml.html for reference…

]]> Comment on Reverse Engineering OKCupid by Jonas http://davidshimel.com/reverse-engineering-okcupid/#comment-173 Jonas Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:59:35 +0000 http://davidshimel.com/?p=188#comment-173 lxml parses HTML as well as XML. Check out the documentation, it’s actually quite good. You’ll find that lxml can even use the parser from BeautifulSoup if it fits your data better (which in practice is seldom the case). Trust Linus here, use lxml.

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