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adam
088add3d6e = 4.6.0 (20170507) =
* Added the `Tag.get_attribute_list` method, which acts like `Tag.get` for
  getting the value of an attribute, but which always returns a list,
  whether or not the attribute is a multi-value attribute.

* It's now possible to use a tag's namespace prefix when searching,
  e.g. soup.find('namespace:tag')

* Improved the handling of empty-element tags like <br> when using the
  html.parser parser.

* HTML parsers treat all HTML4 and HTML5 empty element tags (aka void
  element tags) correctly.

* Namespace prefix is preserved when an XML tag is copied. Thanks
  to Vikas for a patch and test.
2017-05-09 20:05:17 +00:00
wen
eda99c8035 Update to 4.5.3
Upstream changes:
= 4.5.3 (20170102) =

* Fixed foster parenting when html5lib is the tree builder. Thanks to
  Geoffrey Sneddon for a patch and test.

* Fixed yet another problem that caused the html5lib tree builder to
  create a disconnected parse tree. [bug=1629825]

= 4.5.2 (20170102) =

* Apart from the version number, this release is identical to
  4.5.3. Due to user error, it could not be completely uploaded to
  PyPI. Use 4.5.3 instead.
2017-02-12 04:01:39 +00:00
leot
f365f424e4 Update www/py-beautifulsoup4 to 4.5.1
Changes:
= 4.5.1 (20160802) =
* Fixed a crash when passing Unicode markup that contained a
  processing instruction into the lxml HTML parser on Python
  3. [bug=1608048]

= 4.5.0 (20160719) =
* Beautiful Soup is no longer compatible with Python 2.6. This
  actually happened a few releases ago, but it's now official.
* Beautiful Soup will now work with versions of html5lib greater than
  0.99999999. [bug=1603299]
* If a search against each individual value of a multi-valued
  attribute fails, the search will be run one final time against the
  complete attribute value considered as a single string. That is, if
  a tag has class="foo bar" and neither "foo" nor "bar" matches, but
  "foo bar" does, the tag is now considered a match.
  This happened in previous versions, but only when the value being
  searched for was a string. Now it also works when that value is
  a regular expression, a list of strings, etc. [bug=1476868]
* Fixed a bug that deranged the tree when a whitespace element was
  reparented into a tag that contained an identical whitespace
  element. [bug=1505351]
* Added support for CSS selector values that contain quoted spaces,
  such as tag[style="display: foo"]. [bug=1540588]
* Corrected handling of XML processing instructions. [bug=1504393]
* Corrected an encoding error that happened when a BeautifulSoup
  object was copied. [bug=1554439]
* The contents of <textarea> tags will no longer be modified when the
  tree is prettified. [bug=1555829]
* When a BeautifulSoup object is pickled but its tree builder cannot
  be pickled, its .builder attribute is set to None instead of being
  destroyed. This avoids a performance problem once the object is
  unpickled. [bug=1523629]
* Specify the file and line number when warning about a
  BeautifulSoup object being instantiated without a parser being
  specified. [bug=1574647]
* The `limit` argument to `select()` now works correctly, though it's
  not implemented very efficiently. [bug=1520530]
* Fixed a Python 3 ByteWarning when a URL was passed in as though it
  were markup. Thanks to James Salter for a patch and
  test. [bug=1533762]
* We don't run the check for a filename passed in as markup if the
  'filename' contains a less-than character; the less-than character
  indicates it's most likely a very small document. [bug=1577864]

= 4.4.1 (20150928) =
* Fixed a bug that deranged the tree when part of it was
  removed. Thanks to Eric Weiser for the patch and John Wiseman for a
  test. [bug=1481520]
* Fixed a parse bug with the html5lib tree-builder. Thanks to Roel
  Kramer for the patch. [bug=1483781]
* Improved the implementation of CSS selector grouping. Thanks to
  Orangain for the patch. [bug=1484543]
* Fixed the test_detect_utf8 test so that it works when chardet is
  installed. [bug=1471359]
* Corrected the output of Declaration objects. [bug=1477847]

= 4.4.0 (20150703) =
Especially important changes:
* Added a warning when you instantiate a BeautifulSoup object without
  explicitly naming a parser. [bug=1398866]
* __repr__ now returns an ASCII bytestring in Python 2, and a Unicode
  string in Python 3, instead of a UTF8-encoded bytestring in both
  versions. In Python 3, __str__ now returns a Unicode string instead
  of a bytestring. [bug=1420131]
* The `text` argument to the find_* methods is now called `string`,
  which is more accurate. `text` still works, but `string` is the
  argument described in the documentation. `text` may eventually
  change its meaning, but not for a very long time. [bug=1366856]
* Changed the way soup objects work under copy.copy(). Copying a
  NavigableString or a Tag will give you a new NavigableString that's
  equal to the old one but not connected to the parse tree. Patch by
  Martijn Peters. [bug=1307490]
* Started using a standard MIT license. [bug=1294662]
* Added a Chinese translation of the documentation by Delong .w.
New features:
* Introduced the select_one() method, which uses a CSS selector but
  only returns the first match, instead of a list of
  matches. [bug=1349367]
* You can now create a Tag object without specifying a
  TreeBuilder. Patch by Martijn Pieters. [bug=1307471]
* You can now create a NavigableString or a subclass just by invoking
  the constructor. [bug=1294315]
* Added an `exclude_encodings` argument to UnicodeDammit and to the
  Beautiful Soup constructor, which lets you prohibit the detection of
  an encoding that you know is wrong. [bug=1469408]
* The select() method now supports selector grouping. Patch by
  Francisco Canas [bug=1191917]
Bug fixes:
* Fixed yet another problem that caused the html5lib tree builder to
  create a disconnected parse tree. [bug=1237763]
* Force object_was_parsed() to keep the tree intact even when an element
  from later in the document is moved into place. [bug=1430633]
* Fixed yet another bug that caused a disconnected tree when html5lib
  copied an element from one part of the tree to another. [bug=1270611]
* Fixed a bug where Element.extract() could create an infinite loop in
  the remaining tree.
* The select() method can now find tags whose names contain
  dashes. Patch by Francisco Canas. [bug=1276211]
* The select() method can now find tags with attributes whose names
  contain dashes. Patch by Marek Kapolka. [bug=1304007]
* Improved the lxml tree builder's handling of processing
  instructions. [bug=1294645]
* Restored the helpful syntax error that happens when you try to
  import the Python 2 edition of Beautiful Soup under Python
  3. [bug=1213387]
* In Python 3.4 and above, set the new convert_charrefs argument to
  the html.parser constructor to avoid a warning and future
  failures. Patch by Stefano Revera. [bug=1375721]
* The warning when you pass in a filename or URL as markup will now be
  displayed correctly even if the filename or URL is a Unicode
  string. [bug=1268888]
* If the initial <html> tag contains a CDATA list attribute such as
  'class', the html5lib tree builder will now turn its value into a
  list, as it would with any other tag. [bug=1296481]
* Fixed an import error in Python 3.5 caused by the removal of the
  HTMLParseError class. [bug=1420063]
* Improved docstring for encode_contents() and
  decode_contents(). [bug=1441543]
* Fixed a crash in Unicode, Dammit's encoding detector when the name
  of the encoding itself contained invalid bytes. [bug=1360913]
* Improved the exception raised when you call .unwrap() or
  .replace_with() on an element that's not attached to a tree.
* Raise a NotImplementedError whenever an unsupported CSS pseudoclass
  is used in select(). Previously some cases did not result in a
  NotImplementedError.
* It's now possible to pickle a BeautifulSoup object no matter which
  tree builder was used to create it. However, the only tree builder
  that survives the pickling process is the HTMLParserTreeBuilder
  ('html.parser'). If you unpickle a BeautifulSoup object created with
  some other tree builder, soup.builder will be None. [bug=1231545]
2016-08-09 14:40:53 +00:00
wiz
985bcd1cb6 Update to 4.3.2:
= 4.3.2 (20131002) =

* Fixed a bug in which short Unicode input was improperly encoded to
  ASCII when checking whether or not it was the name of a file on
  disk. [bug=1227016]

* Fixed a crash when a short input contains data not valid in
  filenames. [bug=1232604]

* Fixed a bug that caused Unicode data put into UnicodeDammit to
  return None instead of the original data. [bug=1214983]

* Combined two tests to stop a spurious test failure when tests are
  run by nosetests. [bug=1212445]

= 4.3.1 (20130815) =

* Fixed yet another problem with the html5lib tree builder, caused by
  html5lib's tendency to rearrange the tree during
  parsing. [bug=1189267]

* Fixed a bug that caused the optimized version of find_all() to
  return nothing. [bug=1212655]

= 4.3.0 (20130812) =

* Instead of converting incoming data to Unicode and feeding it to the
  lxml tree builder in chunks, Beautiful Soup now makes successive
  guesses at the encoding of the incoming data, and tells lxml to
  parse the data as that encoding. Giving lxml more control over the
  parsing process improves performance and avoids a number of bugs and
  issues with the lxml parser which had previously required elaborate
  workarounds:

  - An issue in which lxml refuses to parse Unicode strings on some
    systems. [bug=1180527]

  - A returning bug that truncated documents longer than a (very
    small) size. [bug=963880]

  - A returning bug in which extra spaces were added to a document if
    the document defined a charset other than UTF-8. [bug=972466]

  This required a major overhaul of the tree builder architecture. If
  you wrote your own tree builder and didn't tell me, you'll need to
  modify your prepare_markup() method.

* The UnicodeDammit code that makes guesses at encodings has been
  split into its own class, EncodingDetector. A lot of apparently
  redundant code has been removed from Unicode, Dammit, and some
  undocumented features have also been removed.

* Beautiful Soup will issue a warning if instead of markup you pass it
  a URL or the name of a file on disk (a common beginner's mistake).

* A number of optimizations improve the performance of the lxml tree
  builder by about 33%, the html.parser tree builder by about 20%, and
  the html5lib tree builder by about 15%.

* All find_all calls should now return a ResultSet object. Patch by
  Aaron DeVore. [bug=1194034]

= 4.2.1 (20130531) =

* The default XML formatter will now replace ampersands even if they
  appear to be part of entities. That is, "&lt;" will become
  "&amp;lt;". The old code was left over from Beautiful Soup 3, which
  didn't always turn entities into Unicode characters.

  If you really want the old behavior (maybe because you add new
  strings to the tree, those strings include entities, and you want
  the formatter to leave them alone on output), it can be found in
  EntitySubstitution.substitute_xml_containing_entities(). [bug=1182183]

* Gave new_string() the ability to create subclasses of
  NavigableString. [bug=1181986]

* Fixed another bug by which the html5lib tree builder could create a
  disconnected tree. [bug=1182089]

* The .previous_element of a BeautifulSoup object is now always None,
  not the last element to be parsed. [bug=1182089]

* Fixed test failures when lxml is not installed. [bug=1181589]

* html5lib now supports Python 3. Fixed some Python 2-specific
  code in the html5lib test suite. [bug=1181624]

* The html.parser treebuilder can now handle numeric attributes in
  text when the hexidecimal name of the attribute starts with a
  capital X. Patch by Tim Shirley. [bug=1186242]

= 4.2.0 (20130514) =

* The Tag.select() method now supports a much wider variety of CSS
  selectors.

 - Added support for the adjacent sibling combinator (+) and the
   general sibling combinator (~). Tests by "liquider". [bug=1082144]

 - The combinators (>, +, and ~) can now combine with any supported
   selector, not just one that selects based on tag name.

 - Added limited support for the "nth-of-type" pseudo-class. Code
   by Sven Slootweg. [bug=1109952]

* The BeautifulSoup class is now aliased to "_s" and "_soup", making
  it quicker to type the import statement in an interactive session:

  from bs4 import _s
   or
  from bs4 import _soup

  The alias may change in the future, so don't use this in code you're
  going to run more than once.

* Added the 'diagnose' submodule, which includes several useful
  functions for reporting problems and doing tech support.

  - diagnose(data) tries the given markup on every installed parser,
    reporting exceptions and displaying successes. If a parser is not
    installed, diagnose() mentions this fact.

  - lxml_trace(data, html=True) runs the given markup through lxml's
    XML parser or HTML parser, and prints out the parser events as
    they happen. This helps you quickly determine whether a given
    problem occurs in lxml code or Beautiful Soup code.

  - htmlparser_trace(data) is the same thing, but for Python's
    built-in HTMLParser class.

* In an HTML document, the contents of a <script> or <style> tag will
  no longer undergo entity substitution by default. XML documents work
  the same way they did before. [bug=1085953]

* Methods like get_text() and properties like .strings now only give
  you strings that are visible in the document--no comments or
  processing commands. [bug=1050164]

* The prettify() method now leaves the contents of <pre> tags
  alone. [bug=1095654]

* Fix a bug in the html5lib treebuilder which sometimes created
  disconnected trees. [bug=1039527]

* Fix a bug in the lxml treebuilder which crashed when a tag included
  an attribute from the predefined "xml:" namespace. [bug=1065617]

* Fix a bug by which keyword arguments to find_parent() were not
  being passed on. [bug=1126734]

* Stop a crash when unwisely messing with a tag that's been
  decomposed. [bug=1097699]

* Now that lxml's segfault on invalid doctype has been fixed, fixed a
  corresponding problem on the Beautiful Soup end that was previously
  invisible. [bug=984936]

* Fixed an exception when an overspecified CSS selector didn't match
  anything. Code by Stefaan Lippens. [bug=1168167]

= 4.1.3 (20120820) =

* Skipped a test under Python 2.6 and Python 3.1 to avoid a spurious
  test failure caused by the lousy HTMLParser in those
  versions. [bug=1038503]

* Raise a more specific error (FeatureNotFound) when a requested
  parser or parser feature is not installed. Raise NotImplementedError
  instead of ValueError when the user calls insert_before() or
  insert_after() on the BeautifulSoup object itself. Patch by Aaron
  Devore. [bug=1038301]

= 4.1.2 (20120817) =

* As per PEP-8, allow searching by CSS class using the 'class_'
  keyword argument. [bug=1037624]

* Display namespace prefixes for namespaced attribute names, instead of
  the fully-qualified names given by the lxml parser. [bug=1037597]

* Fixed a crash on encoding when an attribute name contained
  non-ASCII characters.

* When sniffing encodings, if the cchardet library is installed,
  Beautiful Soup uses it instead of chardet. cchardet is much
  faster. [bug=1020748]

* Use logging.warning() instead of warning.warn() to notify the user
  that characters were replaced with REPLACEMENT
  CHARACTER. [bug=1013862]

= 4.1.1 (20120703) =

* Fixed an html5lib tree builder crash which happened when html5lib
  moved a tag with a multivalued attribute from one part of the tree
  to another. [bug=1019603]

* Correctly display closing tags with an XML namespace declared. Patch
  by Andreas Kostyrka. [bug=1019635]

* Fixed a typo that made parsing significantly slower than it should
  have been, and also waited too long to close tags with XML
  namespaces. [bug=1020268]

* get_text() now returns an empty Unicode string if there is no text,
  rather than an empty bytestring. [bug=1020387]

= 4.1.0 (20120529) =

* Added experimental support for fixing Windows-1252 characters
  embedded in UTF-8 documents. (UnicodeDammit.detwingle())

* Fixed the handling of &quot; with the built-in parser. [bug=993871]

* Comments, processing instructions, document type declarations, and
  markup declarations are now treated as preformatted strings, the way
  CData blocks are. [bug=1001025]

* Fixed a bug with the lxml treebuilder that prevented the user from
  adding attributes to a tag that didn't originally have
  attributes. [bug=1002378] Thanks to Oliver Beattie for the patch.

* Fixed some edge-case bugs having to do with inserting an element
  into a tag it's already inside, and replacing one of a tag's
  children with another. [bug=997529]

* Added the ability to search for attribute values specified in UTF-8. [bug=1003974]

  This caused a major refactoring of the search code. All the tests
  pass, but it's possible that some searches will behave differently.
2014-01-19 19:56:32 +00:00
wiz
486944b6b4 Initial import of py-beautifulsoup4, a rewrite of py-beautifulsoup.
Changes compared to version 3 (in py-beautifulsoup):

= 4.1.0 (20120529) =

* Added experimental support for fixing Windows-1252 characters
  embedded in UTF-8 documents. (UnicodeDammit.detwingle())

* Fixed the handling of &quot; with the built-in parser. [bug=993871]

* Comments, processing instructions, document type declarations, and
  markup declarations are now treated as preformatted strings, the way
  CData blocks are. [bug=1001025]

* Fixed a bug with the lxml treebuilder that prevented the user from
  adding attributes to a tag that didn't originally have
  attributes. [bug=1002378] Thanks to Oliver Beattie for the patch.

* Fixed some edge-case bugs having to do with inserting an element
  into a tag it's already inside, and replacing one of a tag's
  children with another. [bug=997529]

* Added the ability to search for attribute values specified in UTF-8. [bug=1003974]

  This caused a major refactoring of the search code. All the tests
  pass, but it's possible that some searches will behave differently.

= 4.0.5 (20120427) =

* Added a new method, wrap(), which wraps an element in a tag.

* Renamed replace_with_children() to unwrap(), which is easier to
  understand and also the jQuery name of the function.

* Made encoding substitution in <meta> tags completely transparent (no
  more %SOUP-ENCODING%).

* Fixed a bug in decoding data that contained a byte-order mark, such
  as data encoded in UTF-16LE. [bug=988980]

* Fixed a bug that made the HTMLParser treebuilder generate XML
  definitions ending with two question marks instead of
  one. [bug=984258]

* Upon document generation, CData objects are no longer run through
  the formatter. [bug=988905]

* The test suite now passes when lxml is not installed, whether or not
  html5lib is installed. [bug=987004]

* Print a warning on HTMLParseErrors to let people know they should
  install a better parser library.

= 4.0.4 (20120416) =

* Fixed a bug that sometimes created disconnected trees.

* Fixed a bug with the string setter that moved a string around the
  tree instead of copying it. [bug=983050]

* Attribute values are now run through the provided output formatter.
  Previously they were always run through the 'minimal' formatter. In
  the future I may make it possible to specify different formatters
  for attribute values and strings, but for now, consistent behavior
  is better than inconsistent behavior. [bug=980237]

* Added the missing renderContents method from Beautiful Soup 3. Also
  added an encode_contents() method to go along with decode_contents().

* Give a more useful error when the user tries to run the Python 2
  version of BS under Python 3.

* UnicodeDammit can now convert Microsoft smart quotes to ASCII with
  UnicodeDammit(markup, smart_quotes_to="ascii").

= 4.0.3 (20120403) =

* Fixed a typo that caused some versions of Python 3 to convert the
  Beautiful Soup codebase incorrectly.

* Got rid of the 4.0.2 workaround for HTML documents--it was
  unnecessary and the workaround was triggering a (possibly different,
  but related) bug in lxml. [bug=972466]

= 4.0.2 (20120326) =

* Worked around a possible bug in lxml that prevents non-tiny XML
  documents from being parsed. [bug=963880, bug=963936]

* Fixed a bug where specifying `text` while also searching for a tag
  only worked if `text` wanted an exact string match. [bug=955942]

= 4.0.1 (20120314) =

* This is the first official release of Beautiful Soup 4. There is no
  4.0.0 release, to eliminate any possibility that packaging software
  might treat "4.0.0" as being an earlier version than "4.0.0b10".

* Brought BS up to date with the latest release of soupselect, adding
  CSS selector support for direct descendant matches and multiple CSS
  class matches.

= 4.0.0b10 (20120302) =

* Added support for simple CSS selectors, taken from the soupselect project.

* Fixed a crash when using html5lib. [bug=943246]

* In HTML5-style <meta charset="foo"> tags, the value of the "charset"
  attribute is now replaced with the appropriate encoding on
  output. [bug=942714]

* Fixed a bug that caused calling a tag to sometimes call find_all()
  with the wrong arguments. [bug=944426]

* For backwards compatibility, brought back the BeautifulStoneSoup
  class as a deprecated wrapper around BeautifulSoup.

= 4.0.0b9 (20120228) =

* Fixed the string representation of DOCTYPEs that have both a public
  ID and a system ID.

* Fixed the generated XML declaration.

* Renamed Tag.nsprefix to Tag.prefix, for consistency with
  NamespacedAttribute.

* Fixed a test failure that occured on Python 3.x when chardet was
  installed.

* Made prettify() return Unicode by default, so it will look nice on
  Python 3 when passed into print().

= 4.0.0b8 (20120224) =

* All tree builders now preserve namespace information in the
  documents they parse. If you use the html5lib parser or lxml's XML
  parser, you can access the namespace URL for a tag as tag.namespace.

  However, there is no special support for namespace-oriented
  searching or tree manipulation. When you search the tree, you need
  to use namespace prefixes exactly as they're used in the original
  document.

* The string representation of a DOCTYPE always ends in a newline.

* Issue a warning if the user tries to use a SoupStrainer in
  conjunction with the html5lib tree builder, which doesn't support
  them.

= 4.0.0b7 (20120223) =

* Upon decoding to string, any characters that can't be represented in
  your chosen encoding will be converted into numeric XML entity
  references.

* Issue a warning if characters were replaced with REPLACEMENT
  CHARACTER during Unicode conversion.

* Restored compatibility with Python 2.6.

* The install process no longer installs docs or auxillary text files.

* It's now possible to deepcopy a BeautifulSoup object created with
  Python's built-in HTML parser.

* About 100 unit tests that "test" the behavior of various parsers on
  invalid markup have been removed. Legitimate changes to those
  parsers caused these tests to fail, indicating that perhaps
  Beautiful Soup should not test the behavior of foreign
  libraries.

  The problematic unit tests have been reformulated as informational
  comparisons generated by the script
  scripts/demonstrate_parser_differences.py.

  This makes Beautiful Soup compatible with html5lib version 0.95 and
  future versions of HTMLParser.

= 4.0.0b6 (20120216) =

* Multi-valued attributes like "class" always have a list of values,
  even if there's only one value in the list.

* Added a number of multi-valued attributes defined in HTML5.

* Stopped generating a space before the slash that closes an
  empty-element tag. This may come back if I add a special XHTML mode
  (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_2), but right now it's pretty
  useless.

* Passing text along with tag-specific arguments to a find* method:

   find("a", text="Click here")

  will find tags that contain the given text as their
  .string. Previously, the tag-specific arguments were ignored and
  only strings were searched.

* Fixed a bug that caused the html5lib tree builder to build a
  partially disconnected tree. Generally cleaned up the html5lib tree
  builder.

* If you restrict a multi-valued attribute like "class" to a string
  that contains spaces, Beautiful Soup will only consider it a match
  if the values correspond to that specific string.

= 4.0.0b5 (20120209) =

* Rationalized Beautiful Soup's treatment of CSS class. A tag
  belonging to multiple CSS classes is treated as having a list of
  values for the 'class' attribute. Searching for a CSS class will
  match *any* of the CSS classes.

  This actually affects all attributes that the HTML standard defines
  as taking multiple values (class, rel, rev, archive, accept-charset,
  and headers), but 'class' is by far the most common. [bug=41034]

* If you pass anything other than a dictionary as the second argument
  to one of the find* methods, it'll assume you want to use that
  object to search against a tag's CSS classes. Previously this only
  worked if you passed in a string.

* Fixed a bug that caused a crash when you passed a dictionary as an
  attribute value (possibly because you mistyped "attrs"). [bug=842419]

* Unicode, Dammit now detects the encoding in HTML 5-style <meta> tags
  like <meta charset="utf-8" />. [bug=837268]

* If Unicode, Dammit can't figure out a consistent encoding for a
  page, it will try each of its guesses again, with errors="replace"
  instead of errors="strict". This may mean that some data gets
  replaced with REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, but at least most of it will
  get turned into Unicode. [bug=754903]

* Patched over a bug in html5lib (?) that was crashing Beautiful Soup
  on certain kinds of markup. [bug=838800]

* Fixed a bug that wrecked the tree if you replaced an element with an
  empty string. [bug=728697]

* Improved Unicode, Dammit's behavior when you give it Unicode to
  begin with.

= 4.0.0b4 (20120208) =

* Added BeautifulSoup.new_string() to go along with BeautifulSoup.new_tag()

* BeautifulSoup.new_tag() will follow the rules of whatever
  tree-builder was used to create the original BeautifulSoup object. A
  new <p> tag will look like "<p />" if the soup object was created to
  parse XML, but it will look like "<p></p>" if the soup object was
  created to parse HTML.

* We pass in strict=False to html.parser on Python 3, greatly
  improving html.parser's ability to handle bad HTML.

* We also monkeypatch a serious bug in html.parser that made
  strict=False disastrous on Python 3.2.2.

* Replaced the "substitute_html_entities" argument with the
  more general "formatter" argument.

* Bare ampersands and angle brackets are always converted to XML
  entities unless the user prevents it.

* Added PageElement.insert_before() and PageElement.insert_after(),
  which let you put an element into the parse tree with respect to
  some other element.

* Raise an exception when the user tries to do something nonsensical
  like insert a tag into itself.


= 4.0.0b3 (20120203) =

Beautiful Soup 4 is a nearly-complete rewrite that removes Beautiful
Soup's custom HTML parser in favor of a system that lets you write a
little glue code and plug in any HTML or XML parser you want.

Beautiful Soup 4.0 comes with glue code for four parsers:

 * Python's standard HTMLParser (html.parser in Python 3)
 * lxml's HTML and XML parsers
 * html5lib's HTML parser

HTMLParser is the default, but I recommend you install lxml if you
can.

For complete documentation, see the Sphinx documentation in
bs4/doc/source/. What follows is a summary of the changes from
Beautiful Soup 3.

=== The module name has changed ===

Previously you imported the BeautifulSoup class from a module also
called BeautifulSoup. To save keystrokes and make it clear which
version of the API is in use, the module is now called 'bs4':

    >>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

=== It works with Python 3 ===

Beautiful Soup 3.1.0 worked with Python 3, but the parser it used was
so bad that it barely worked at all. Beautiful Soup 4 works with
Python 3, and since its parser is pluggable, you don't sacrifice
quality.

Special thanks to Thomas Kluyver and Ezio Melotti for getting Python 3
support to the finish line. Ezio Melotti is also to thank for greatly
improving the HTML parser that comes with Python 3.2.

=== CDATA sections are normal text, if they're understood at all. ===

Currently, the lxml and html5lib HTML parsers ignore CDATA sections in
markup:

 <p><![CDATA[foo]]></p> => <p></p>

A future version of html5lib will turn CDATA sections into text nodes,
but only within tags like <svg> and <math>:

 <svg><![CDATA[foo]]></svg> => <p>foo</p>

The default XML parser (which uses lxml behind the scenes) turns CDATA
sections into ordinary text elements:

 <p><![CDATA[foo]]></p> => <p>foo</p>

In theory it's possible to preserve the CDATA sections when using the
XML parser, but I don't see how to get it to work in practice.

=== Miscellaneous other stuff ===

If the BeautifulSoup instance has .is_xml set to True, an appropriate
XML declaration will be emitted when the tree is transformed into a
string:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8">
    <markup>
     ...
    </markup>

The ['lxml', 'xml'] tree builder sets .is_xml to True; the other tree
builders set it to False. If you want to parse XHTML with an HTML
parser, you can set it manually.
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