Python Modules

This page contains information about python modules I have used; hopefully providing some shortcuts to deciphering documentation.

BeautifulSoup

BeautifulSoup4 is an excellent module for "web scraping"; it makes it much less painful to extract data from web sites. However, the documentation is not terribly well organized. The "bs4" page contains documentation for a small number of BeautifulSoup commands commonly used in these data scraping tasks.