Venus and lxml

[Dethe Elza]

On 6-Jul-07, at 10:53 AM, Kevin Hamilton wrote:

> I had similar problems on my webhost, 1-and-1.  I ended up compiling
> libxml2 and libxslt myself, which turned out to not be that big of a
> PITA, actually.

No, but not as easy as "easy_install lxml" for sure.

>> I had planet (venus) running on dreamhost before. You can download  
>> debian
>> binaries for libxslt and xsltproc and extract them into your home  
>> directory
>> and then copy the appropriate files somewhere into your  
>> PYTHONPATH. I do not
>> remember the exact details now, but mail me privately if you need any
>> further help, I could dig up into my backup and get you the exact  
>> files if
>> need be.

Thanks for the offer of help, but I have it working now with lxml.   
I'm happy with that solution, just wanted to share back in case  
anyone else found it useful.  I should probably learn how to install  
debian binaries without apt-get sometime, but not today.

--Dethe

Lao-Tse  thought XML was verbose but  that did not matter because  
computers  will someday learn from poets. --unknown, via Jason Cunliffe