Every time I have to deal with python packaging I hate it even more than before

Like, sure, serialising your API as HTML5 is totally fine and not unspeakably cursed way to do it

....yes, they invented a JSON version, but it's not supported by our version of internal registry, and updating it will take somewhere between two hours and half year

and, the most convenient way to parse such amazing markup with python stdlib, is regular expressions. Because xml parsers can't do html, and included html.parser is only half-done

LMAO, even half-done stub in stdlib uses regular expressions

after three different full featured xml parsers in module next to, this feels like an insult

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.14/Lib/html/parser.py

There's several completely incompatible formats, and zero official tooling to deal with that

except pip, but it works only for cli

well, I sorta hacked it with pip & grep via subprocess.run

slow as fuck, but at least I don't have to manually parse 5 different formats

and our repo is small anyways