parsel vs. Xmplify vs. python-docx vs. python-sql Comparison Chart

Parsel is a BSD-licensed Python library to extract and remove data from HTML and XML using XPath and CSS selectors, optionally combined with regular expressions. Create a selector object for the HTML or XML text that you want to parse. Then use CSS or XPath expressions to select elements. CSS is a language for applying styles to HTML documents. It defines selectors to associate those styles with specific HTML elements. XPath is a language for selecting nodes in XML documents, which can also be used with HTML. You can use either CSS or XPath. CSS is usually more readable, but some things can only be done with XPath. Being built atop lxml, parsel selectors support some EXSLT extensions and come with pre-registered namespaces to use in XPath expressions. Parsel selectors allow you to chain selectors, so most of the time you can just select by class using CSS and then switch to XPath when needed.

python-docx is a Python library for creating and updating Microsoft Word (.docx) files. Paragraphs are fundamental in Word. They’re used for body text, but also for headings and list items like bullets. You’re free to specify both width and height, but usually, you wouldn’t want to. If you specify only one, python-docx uses it to calculate the properly scaled value of the other. This way the aspect ratio is preserved and your picture doesn’t look stretched. If you don’t know what a Word paragraph style is you should definitely check it out. Basically, it allows you to apply a whole set of formatting options to a paragraph at once. python-docx allows you to create new documents as well as make changes to existing ones. Actually, it only lets you make changes to existing documents; it’s just that if you start with a document that doesn’t have any content, it might feel at first like you’re creating one from scratch.