A jquery-like library for python
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pyquery allows you to make jquery queries on xml documents. The API is as much as possible similar to jquery. pyquery uses lxml for fast xml and html manipulation.
This is not (or at least not yet) a library to produce or interact with javascript code. I just liked the jquery API and I missed it in python so I told myself "Hey let's make jquery in python". This is the result.
The project_ is being actively developed on a git repository on Github. I
have the policy of giving push access to anyone who wants it and then reviewing
what they do. So if you want to contribute just email me.
Please report bugs on the github <https://github.com/gawel/pyquery/issues>_ issue
tracker.
.. _deliverance: http://www.gawel.org/weblog/en/2008/12/skinning-with-pyquery-and-deliverance .. _project: https://github.com/gawel/pyquery/
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(urlopen, your_url, path_to_html_file) = getfixture('readme_fixt')
You can use the PyQuery class to load an xml document from a string, a lxml document, from a file or from an url::
>>> from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
>>> from lxml import etree
>>> import urllib
>>> d = pq("<html></html>")
>>> d = pq(etree.fromstring("<html></html>"))
>>> d = pq(url=your_url)
>>> d = pq(url=your_url,
... opener=lambda url, **kw: urlopen(url).read())
>>> d = pq(filename=path_to_html_file)
Now d is like the $ in jquery::
>>> d("#hello")
[<p#hello.hello>]
>>> p = d("#hello")
>>> print(p.html())
Hello world !
>>> p.html("you know <a href='http://python.org/'>Python</a> rocks")
[<p#hello.hello>]
>>> print(p.html())
you know <a href="http://python.org/">Python</a> rocks
>>> print(p.text())
you know Python rocks
You can use some of the pseudo classes that are available in jQuery but that are not standard in css such as :first :last :even :odd :eq :lt :gt :checked :selected :file::
>>> d('p:first')
[<p#hello.hello>]
See http://pyquery.rtfd.org/ for the full documentation
Breaking change: inputs starting with "http://" or "https://" like
PyQuery("http://example.com") will no longer fetch the contents of the URL.
Users desiring the old behavior should switch to PyQuery(url="http://example.com").
Add nextUntil method
.remove() no longer inserts a space in place of the removed element
Fix escaping of top-level element text in .html() output
Support (and require) cssselect 1.2+
Drop support for python 3.5/3.6
Fix exception raised when calling PyQuery("<textarea></textarea>").text()
python2 is no longer supported
This is the latest release with py2 support
Remove py33, py34 support
web scraping improvements: default timeout and session support
Add API methods to serialize form-related elements according to spec
Include HTML markup when querying textarea text/value
.text() to match firefox behavior.Remove some unmaintained modules: pyquery.ajax and pyquery.rules
Code cleanup. No longer use ugly hacks required by python2.6/python3.2.
Run tests with python3.6 on CI
Add a method argument to .outer_html()
PyQuery('<input value="">').val() is ''PyQuery('<input>').val() is ''.attr('value', '') no longer removes the value attribute
<input type="checkbox"> without value="..." have a .val() of
'on'
<input type="radio"> without value="..." have a .val() of
'on'
<select> without <option selected> have the value of their first
<option> (or None if there are no options)
.val() should never raise
drop py26 support
improve .extend() by returning self