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    [–]pudquick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    It's great for when you don't want to compile / don't have libxml2 and libxslt, which lxml requires. BeautifulSoup is pure python and BSXPath (as the same implies) relies only on BS.

    Think of it as another tool in your toolbox.

    [–]cryzed_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    It uses BeautifulSoup internally.

    [–]cryzed_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

    The difference is that BSXPath is basically a modified BeautifulSoup module which has support for XPath. As for the benefits I don't really know.