Parsing HTML in python – lxml or BeautifulSoup? Which of these is better for what kinds of purposes?

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Pyquery provides the jQuery selector interface to Python (using lxml under the hood).

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyquery

It’s really awesome, I don’t use anything else anymore.

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