Commenting Code Properly(github.com)
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Commenting Code Properly
https://github.com/sailfrog/hnreader/blob/master/hn.py
5 comments
The submission was meant to be humorous, sorry to disappoint. No matter how you slice it parsing HTML from a 3rd party site is a major hack, though this does however work nicely (itch scratched). Lastly I have some other ideas for submissions so don't judge this as the worst just yet.
> No matter how you slice it parsing HTML from a 3rd party site is a major hack
WebKit seems to do just fine. I think you're making excuses.
WebKit seems to do just fine. I think you're making excuses.
Until the source site changes the URL, or the URL arguments, or the page structure, or the doctype, or the CSS selectors, or the element ids, or whatever it is you key on to ferret out the content you care about. Scraping data embedded in markup not bound to an API spec is fragile regardless of how "properly" you parse it because there is no guarantee of structural consistency.
Don't use regexes to parse HTML, use BeautifulSoup instead. Also, don't use "brogrammer" style comments, they are not funny enough.
Something like: https://gist.github.com/3850232
I thought it was funny. I'd rather see funny comments, than no comments at all.
Love it! Code comments need more adjectives and Culture Club lyrics.
err, no.
It would be hard to craft a submission worse than this.