26/May 2018
3 min. read
Background I’ve fixed the html2text performance issue in last post, so now I can use it. I need to use it from Python, and that leaves me not many choices. Python by the C side, a blog post in the PayPal Engineering blog, has listed the options. C extension is hard to code and is not worth it. This post is about the experience and reflections about my first time using cffi.25/May 2018
6 min. read
Background I come across this command line utility available in linux called html2text which was first written in 1999 and changed hands later. Obviously an old project, but a solid one. At least it handles a<div><br></div>b properly by outputing a\n\nb, instead of a\n\n\nb like most of the other converters out there. (I’m looking at you, Python html2text.)
I download the source code of v1.3.2a from here and play around it.