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		joseakle on Dec 5, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pyquery 0.2 : jQuery for Python 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.

nevare on Dec 6, 2008 [–]

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.

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