"Because that code works fine for 5 years until it blows up after something upstream changes."
I believe the point here is exactly that nothing will change, because the regex in question isn't for a service, it is just for that specific file, right now, today. I've regexed specific HTML files myself too, because even though I am very comfortable with XPath and Beautiful Soup and tree representations in general, regexes are even easier on a static file like that.
I believe the point here is exactly that nothing will change, because the regex in question isn't for a service, it is just for that specific file, right now, today. I've regexed specific HTML files myself too, because even though I am very comfortable with XPath and Beautiful Soup and tree representations in general, regexes are even easier on a static file like that.