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Book:   Programming Python
Subject:   Networking section is too dated
Date:   2006-12-27 10:41:28
From:   Stephen Purpura
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

Scraping and processing the web for data is increasingly interesting to blooming social scientists. With the availability of the BeautifulSoup library, these occasional programmers are now able to slice & dice HTML with regular expressions. But they shouldn't use this book to help them scrape the data from the Internet. Reading this book and using its examples, one might conclude that cookies don't exist on the Web.


If you're looking for solid Web examples or networking example code, don't look here. This section of the book is in need of a re-tune.


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