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		konsl on March 30, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask YC: Where to start with creating a distributed... If you're looking at building your own crawler in Python from scratch, here's a benchmark of SGML parsers: http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:LYoRD1GTP2UJ:www.oluyede... We've been playing with sgmlop (http://effbot.org/zone/sgmlop-index.htm) for parsing and urllib2 (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib2.html) for fetching.

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