Proof-of-concept scraper for iPlayer web frontend TV data to JSON

Tom madtom1999 at googlemail.com
Sat Nov 1 04:12:07 PDT 2014


On 01/11/14 02:01, Steven Maude wrote:
> On 01/11/2014 00:27, dinkypumpkin wrote:
>
>> Thanks for that.  From underneath 10,000 lines of Perl I gaze longingly
>> at that lovely strictly-indented, sigil-less Python.
>
> Python is really easy to use, though not everyone loves the indentation!
As someone who has written many ASP (PHB .NET etc) pages this feature of 
Python makes it almost completely unusable in that situation.
I do use it for some things but its just a computer language and any any 
feature that seems to make one thing easier almost invariably makes 
something else harder. At certain level of coding most python stuff 
seems to write and compile C++ to get the job done!
Tom





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