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Commenting Code Properly
- sneak 14y agoThe comments are stupid, the headline is wrong, and you're parsing HTML with regular expressions. It would be hard to craft a submission worse than this.
- sailfrog 14y agoThe 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.
- sneak 14y ago> 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.
- sailfrog 14y agoUntil 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.
- wjgeorge 14y agoerr, no.
- donutdan4114 14y agoI thought it was funny. I'd rather see funny comments, than no comments at all.
- eccp 14y agoDon't use regexes to parse HTML, use BeautifulSoup instead. Also, don't use "brogrammer" style comments, they are not funny enough.
- eccp 14y agoSomething like: https://gist.github.com/3850232 https://gist.github.com/3850232
- talleyrand 14y agoLove it! Code comments need more adjectives and Culture Club lyrics.