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tony on June 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Python bindings to the Servo HTML5 parser...

This is exciting. It's using Cython [1]

To the author:

What do you feel about binding python to rust? Did you use any tutorials?

[1] https://github.com/tbodt/htmlpyever/blob/880da57/setup.py#L5

gsnedders on June 20, 2017 [–]

Seems to be using lxml's C API for treebuilding; I wonder how that compares (perf wise, primarily) to using libxml2 directly and then calling adoptExternalDocument?

tbodt on June 21, 2017 | [–]

I did not know adoptExternalDocument existed...

gsnedders on June 21, 2017 | | [–]

Heh, okay, so it wasn't a deliberate decision!

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