domonic

Hi HN! byteface here. myjs was a recent accident I'd like to share. Several years ago I began writing DOM API's in Python as a curiosity: https://github.com/byteface/domonic/ Every now and then I do another pass rolling in more features from the MDN pages. I have lots of unit tests but found that porting real code and libraries was a useful test of the DOM compatibility. But I didn't want to pollute the core any further as had already ported d3 and jquery. So I created a new repo called domonic-libs: https://github.com/byteface/domonic-libs/ Anyways a couple of days ago while porting some js libraries faithfully to run against dom.py and javascript.py I came across Acorn (a Javascript parser) and coverted it into pure python. Once Acorn.py was producing an AST, I mapped that against domonic's Javascript and DOM nodes and to my surprise...

I have been working on a (currently half-baked) similar project: - <https://github.com/abilian/webbits> Inspirations for the idea of generating HTML code from Python: - <https://www.yattag.org/> - <https://tylerbakke.github.io/MarkupPy/> - <https://github.com/michaeljones/packed> - <https://github.com/twidi/mixt/> - <https://github.com/byteface/domonic> - <https://pypi.org/project/hyperpython/> - <https://pypi.org/project/PyHTML/> - <https://github.com/jviide/htm.py> - <https://viewdom.readthedocs.io/> - <https://github.com/pcarbonn/fast_html> - <https://github.com/sanic-org/html5tagger> - <https://github.com/j4mie/hotmetal/>

I'm not sure about quicker. Doesn't scrapy use elementpath?. which converts a css query to an xpath under the hood as there is no complete CSSOM available for python. Likely as there is no modern standards based python dom to operate on so doing it on lxml tree is probably the best option. I find the main difference is xpath can return an attribute value where as css returns the node. You can use either from the terminal in my lib... https://github.com/byteface/domonic (as it uses elementpath like scrapy)

easy to say when you got thousands. I had to really grind for my 43 stars over 18 months and each one really made my day. (python): https://github.com/byteface/domonic/