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cssselect: CSS Selectors for Python
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*cssselect* parses `CSS3 Selectors`_ and translate them to `XPath 1.0`_
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expressions. Such expressions can be used in lxml_ or another XPath engine
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to find the matching elements in an XML or HTML document.
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This module used to live inside of lxml as ``lxml.cssselect`` before it was
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extracted as a stand-alone project.
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.. _CSS3 Selectors: https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/
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.. _XPath 1.0: https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/
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.. _lxml: http://lxml.de/
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Quick facts:
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* Free software: BSD licensed
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* Compatible with Python 2.6+ and 3.2+
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* Latest documentation `on python.org <https://pythonhosted.org/cssselect/>`_
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* Source, issues and pull requests `on Github
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<https://github.com/scrapy/cssselect>`_
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* Releases `on PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cssselect>`_
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* Install with ``pip install cssselect``
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