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author | Leonard Richardson <leonard.richardson@canonical.com> | 2012-02-07 23:40:06 -0500 |
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committer | Leonard Richardson <leonard.richardson@canonical.com> | 2012-02-07 23:40:06 -0500 |
commit | 43aeaf51780466e023418f7dfd1f456614c061e2 (patch) | |
tree | 156998a925451e16e9947efa40ad4261a2204042 | |
parent | 7cb84c432367c52702920d68ec6c9669e9b6c9db (diff) |
Package the docs with the code.
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-rw-r--r-- | README.txt | 74 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | bs4/doc/source/index.rst (renamed from doc/source/index.rst) | 2 | ||||
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/Makefile | 130 | ||||
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/source/conf.py | 256 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | setup.py | 1 |
8 files changed, 77 insertions, 461 deletions
@@ -26,9 +26,79 @@ Added PageElement.insert_after(). Raise an exception when the user tries to do something nonsensical like insert a tag into itself. -= 4.0 = += 4.0.0b3 = + +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. -Nearly complete rewrite = 3.2.0 = @@ -34,78 +34,8 @@ </tag3> </tag1> -= About Beautiful Soup 4 = - -This 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 one of the -other parsers, or you'll have problems handling real-world markup. - -For complete documentation, see the Sphinx documentation in -docs/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. +The bs4/doc directory contains full documentation in Sphinx +format. Run "make html" to create HTML documentation. = Running the unit tests = diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/bs4/doc/source/index.rst index fa0648d..ad1dbf7 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/bs4/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1474,7 +1474,7 @@ like calling ``.append()`` on a Python list:: # [u'Foo', u'Bar'] ``BeautifulSoup.new_string()`` and ``.new_tag()`` ------------------------------------------------- +------------------------------------------------- If you need to add a string to a document, no problem--you can pass a Python string in to ``append()``, or you can call the factory method @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +bs4/doc/
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index 8c833d2..0000000 --- a/doc/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,130 +0,0 @@ -# Makefile for Sphinx documentation -# - -# You can set these variables from the command line. -SPHINXOPTS = -SPHINXBUILD = sphinx-build -PAPER = -BUILDDIR = build - -# Internal variables. -PAPEROPT_a4 = -D latex_paper_size=a4 -PAPEROPT_letter = -D latex_paper_size=letter -ALLSPHINXOPTS = -d $(BUILDDIR)/doctrees $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) source - -.PHONY: help clean html dirhtml singlehtml pickle json htmlhelp qthelp devhelp epub latex latexpdf text man changes linkcheck doctest - -help: - @echo "Please use \`make <target>' where <target> is one of" - @echo " html to make standalone HTML files" - @echo " dirhtml to make HTML files named index.html in directories" - @echo " singlehtml to make a single large HTML file" - @echo " pickle to make pickle files" - @echo " json to make JSON files" - @echo " htmlhelp to make HTML files and a HTML help project" - @echo " qthelp to make HTML files and a qthelp project" - @echo " devhelp to make HTML files and a Devhelp project" - @echo " epub to make an epub" - @echo " latex to make LaTeX files, you can set PAPER=a4 or PAPER=letter" - @echo " latexpdf to make LaTeX files and run them through pdflatex" - @echo " text to make text files" - @echo " man to make manual pages" - @echo " changes to make an overview of all changed/added/deprecated items" - @echo " linkcheck to check all external links for integrity" - @echo " doctest to run all doctests embedded in the documentation (if enabled)" - -clean: - -rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/* - -html: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b html $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/html - @echo - @echo "Build finished. The HTML pages are in $(BUILDDIR)/html." - -dirhtml: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b dirhtml $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/dirhtml - @echo - @echo "Build finished. The HTML pages are in $(BUILDDIR)/dirhtml." - -singlehtml: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b singlehtml $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/singlehtml - @echo - @echo "Build finished. The HTML page is in $(BUILDDIR)/singlehtml." - -pickle: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b pickle $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/pickle - @echo - @echo "Build finished; now you can process the pickle files." - -json: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b json $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/json - @echo - @echo "Build finished; now you can process the JSON files." - -htmlhelp: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b htmlhelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/htmlhelp - @echo - @echo "Build finished; now you can run HTML Help Workshop with the" \ - ".hhp project file in $(BUILDDIR)/htmlhelp." - -qthelp: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b qthelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp - @echo - @echo "Build finished; now you can run "qcollectiongenerator" with the" \ - ".qhcp project file in $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp, like this:" - @echo "# qcollectiongenerator $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp/BeautifulSoup.qhcp" - @echo "To view the help file:" - @echo "# assistant -collectionFile $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp/BeautifulSoup.qhc" - -devhelp: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b devhelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/devhelp - @echo - @echo "Build finished." - @echo "To view the help file:" - @echo "# mkdir -p $$HOME/.local/share/devhelp/BeautifulSoup" - @echo "# ln -s $(BUILDDIR)/devhelp $$HOME/.local/share/devhelp/BeautifulSoup" - @echo "# devhelp" - -epub: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b epub $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/epub - @echo - @echo "Build finished. The epub file is in $(BUILDDIR)/epub." - -latex: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b latex $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/latex - @echo - @echo "Build finished; the LaTeX files are in $(BUILDDIR)/latex." - @echo "Run \`make' in that directory to run these through (pdf)latex" \ - "(use \`make latexpdf' here to do that automatically)." - -latexpdf: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b latex $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/latex - @echo "Running LaTeX files through pdflatex..." - make -C $(BUILDDIR)/latex all-pdf - @echo "pdflatex finished; the PDF files are in $(BUILDDIR)/latex." - -text: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b text $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/text - @echo - @echo "Build finished. The text files are in $(BUILDDIR)/text." - -man: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b man $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/man - @echo - @echo "Build finished. The manual pages are in $(BUILDDIR)/man." - -changes: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b changes $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/changes - @echo - @echo "The overview file is in $(BUILDDIR)/changes." - -linkcheck: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b linkcheck $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/linkcheck - @echo - @echo "Link check complete; look for any errors in the above output " \ - "or in $(BUILDDIR)/linkcheck/output.txt." - -doctest: - $(SPHINXBUILD) -b doctest $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/doctest - @echo "Testing of doctests in the sources finished, look at the " \ - "results in $(BUILDDIR)/doctest/output.txt." diff --git a/doc/source/6.1.jpg b/doc/source/6.1.jpg Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 97014f0..0000000 --- a/doc/source/6.1.jpg +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 56c0939..0000000 --- a/doc/source/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,256 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- -# -# Beautiful Soup documentation build configuration file, created by -# sphinx-quickstart on Thu Jan 26 11:22:55 2012. -# -# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its containing dir. -# -# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this -# autogenerated file. -# -# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out -# serve to show the default. - -import sys, os - -# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory, -# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the -# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here. -#sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.')) - -# -- General configuration ----------------------------------------------------- - -# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here. -#needs_sphinx = '1.0' - -# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be extensions -# coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones. -extensions = [] - -# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory. -templates_path = ['_templates'] - -# The suffix of source filenames. -source_suffix = '.rst' - -# The encoding of source files. -#source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig' - -# The master toctree document. -master_doc = 'index' - -# General information about the project. -project = u'Beautiful Soup' -copyright = u'2012, Leonard Richardson' - -# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for -# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the -# built documents. -# -# The short X.Y version. -version = '4' -# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags. -release = '4.0.0' - -# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation -# for a list of supported languages. -#language = None - -# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some -# non-false value, then it is used: -#today = '' -# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call. -#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y' - -# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and -# directories to ignore when looking for source files. -exclude_patterns = [] - -# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all documents. -#default_role = None - -# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text. -#add_function_parentheses = True - -# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description -# unit titles (such as .. function::). -#add_module_names = True - -# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the -# output. They are ignored by default. -#show_authors = False - -# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use. -pygments_style = 'sphinx' - -# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting. -#modindex_common_prefix = [] - - -# -- Options for HTML output --------------------------------------------------- - -# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages. See the documentation for -# a list of builtin themes. -html_theme = 'default' - -# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme -# further. For a list of options available for each theme, see the -# documentation. -#html_theme_options = {} - -# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory. -#html_theme_path = [] - -# The name for this set of Sphinx documents. If None, it defaults to -# "<project> v<release> documentation". -#html_title = None - -# A shorter title for the navigation bar. Default is the same as html_title. -#html_short_title = None - -# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top -# of the sidebar. -#html_logo = None - -# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the -# docs. This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32 -# pixels large. -#html_favicon = None - -# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here, -# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files, -# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css". -html_static_path = ['_static'] - -# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom, -# using the given strftime format. -#html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y' - -# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to -# typographically correct entities. -#html_use_smartypants = True - -# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names. -#html_sidebars = {} - -# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to -# template names. -#html_additional_pages = {} - -# If false, no module index is generated. -#html_domain_indices = True - -# If false, no index is generated. -#html_use_index = True - -# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter. -#html_split_index = False - -# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages. -#html_show_sourcelink = True - -# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True. -#html_show_sphinx = True - -# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True. -#html_show_copyright = True - -# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will -# contain a <link> tag referring to it. The value of this option must be the -# base URL from which the finished HTML is served. -#html_use_opensearch = '' - -# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml"). -#html_file_suffix = None - -# Output file base name for HTML help builder. -htmlhelp_basename = 'BeautifulSoupdoc' - - -# -- Options for LaTeX output -------------------------------------------------- - -# The paper size ('letter' or 'a4'). -#latex_paper_size = 'letter' - -# The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt'). -#latex_font_size = '10pt' - -# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples -# (source start file, target name, title, author, documentclass [howto/manual]). -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'BeautifulSoup.tex', u'Beautiful Soup Documentation', - u'Leonard Richardson', 'manual'), -] - -# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of -# the title page. -#latex_logo = None - -# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts, -# not chapters. -#latex_use_parts = False - -# If true, show page references after internal links. -#latex_show_pagerefs = False - -# If true, show URL addresses after external links. -#latex_show_urls = False - -# Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble. -#latex_preamble = '' - -# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals. -#latex_appendices = [] - -# If false, no module index is generated. -#latex_domain_indices = True - - -# -- Options for manual page output -------------------------------------------- - -# One entry per manual page. List of tuples -# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section). -man_pages = [ - ('index', 'beautifulsoup', u'Beautiful Soup Documentation', - [u'Leonard Richardson'], 1) -] - - -# -- Options for Epub output --------------------------------------------------- - -# Bibliographic Dublin Core info. -epub_title = u'Beautiful Soup' -epub_author = u'Leonard Richardson' -epub_publisher = u'Leonard Richardson' -epub_copyright = u'2012, Leonard Richardson' - -# The language of the text. It defaults to the language option -# or en if the language is not set. -#epub_language = '' - -# The scheme of the identifier. Typical schemes are ISBN or URL. -#epub_scheme = '' - -# The unique identifier of the text. This can be a ISBN number -# or the project homepage. -#epub_identifier = '' - -# A unique identification for the text. -#epub_uid = '' - -# HTML files that should be inserted before the pages created by sphinx. -# The format is a list of tuples containing the path and title. -#epub_pre_files = [] - -# HTML files shat should be inserted after the pages created by sphinx. -# The format is a list of tuples containing the path and title. -#epub_post_files = [] - -# A list of files that should not be packed into the epub file. -#epub_exclude_files = [] - -# The depth of the table of contents in toc.ncx. -#epub_tocdepth = 3 - -# Allow duplicate toc entries. -#epub_tocdup = True @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ setup(name="beautifulsoup4", long_description="""Beautiful Soup sits atop an HTML or XML parser, providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying the parse tree.""", license="MIT", packages=['bs4', 'bs4.builder', 'bs4.tests'], + package_data={"bs4": ["doc/source/*.jpg", "doc/source/*.rst", "doc/source/*.py", "doc/Makefile"]}, cmdclass = {'build_py':build_py}, classifiers=["Development Status :: 4 - Beta", "Intended Audience :: Developers", |