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authorLeonard Richardson <leonard.richardson@canonical.com>2012-04-18 13:14:57 -0400
committerLeonard Richardson <leonard.richardson@canonical.com>2012-04-18 13:14:57 -0400
commit622fead3fef2d870a85d570c5416166076b8c8c4 (patch)
treea44178e5a8cb3c4da547164511f2dd289174e327 /doc/source
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Print a warning on HTMLParseErrors to let people know they should install an external parser.
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@@ -2548,7 +2548,8 @@ Other parser problems
parsers`_ for why this matters, and fix the problem by mentioning a
specific parser library in the ``BeautifulSoup`` constructor.
-* ``HTMLParser.HTMLParseError: malformed start tag`` - Caused by
+* ``HTMLParser.HTMLParseError: malformed start tag`` or
+ ``HTMLParser.HTMLParseError: bad end tag`` - Caused by
giving Python's built-in HTML parser a document it can't handle. Any
other ``HTMLParseError`` is probably the same problem. Solution:
:ref:`Install lxml or html5lib. <parser-installation>`