Aliased the BeautifulSoup class to the easier-to-type "_s" and "_soup".

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index c2739ca..70a1dc7 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@
   you strings that are visible in the document--no comments or
   processing commands. [bug=1050164]
 
+* The BeautifulSoup class is now aliased to "_s" and "_soup", making
+  it quicker to type an import statement in an interactive session:
+
+  from bs4 import _s
+   or
+  from bs4 import _soup
+
 * Fix a bug in the html5lib treebuilder which sometimes created
   disconnected trees. [bug=1039527]
 
diff --git a/bs4/__init__.py b/bs4/__init__.py
index fe2656b..88177d6 100644
--- a/bs4/__init__.py
+++ b/bs4/__init__.py
@@ -335,6 +335,10 @@ class BeautifulSoup(Tag):
         return prefix + super(BeautifulSoup, self).decode(
             indent_level, eventual_encoding, formatter)
 
+# Alias to make it easier to type import: 'from bs4 import _soup'
+_s = BeautifulSoup
+_soup = BeautifulSoup
+
 class BeautifulStoneSoup(BeautifulSoup):
     """Deprecated interface to an XML parser."""