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cssselect: CSS Selectors for Python
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*cssselect* parses `CSS3 Selectors`_ and translate them to `XPath 1.0`_
expressions. Such expressions can be used in lxml_ or another XPath engine
to find the matching elements in an XML or HTML document.

This module used to live inside of lxml as ``lxml.cssselect`` before it was
extracted as a stand-alone project.

.. _CSS3 Selectors: https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/
.. _XPath 1.0: https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/
.. _lxml: http://lxml.de/


Quick facts:

* Free software: BSD licensed
* Compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.4+
* Latest documentation `on Read the Docs <https://cssselect.readthedocs.io/>`_
* Source, issues and pull requests `on GitHub
  <https://github.com/scrapy/cssselect>`_
* Releases `on PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cssselect>`_
* Install with ``pip install cssselect``