PvP: Perl vs. Python

The problem: parsing an HTML file

The candidates: Python's built-in HTMLParser versus Perl's CPAN module HTML::TreeBuilder

The winner: Perl

Based on syntax alone, Perl's TreeBuilder module allows for a much more powerful tool for understanding and modifying HTML documents, and even though I trust that everything I can do with TreeBuilder can be done with HTMLParser, get this: the TreeBuilder page has actual documentation to show me how.