Is there a Python library that can parse an CSS selector and emit an equivalent XPath expression? For Ruby, there is Nokogiri.
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Is there a Python library that can parse an CSS selector and emit an equivalent XPath expression? For Ruby, there is Nokogiri.
I recently took over cssselect and made it an independent project after extracting it from lxml: http://packages.python.org/cssselect/
It does precisely what the question asks for. The XPath expressions produced can then be used in lxml. PyQuery actually uses cssselect (formerly lxml.cssselect)