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| author | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2020-05-31 17:51:42 -0400 |
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| committer | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2020-05-31 17:51:42 -0400 |
| commit | a032f89fd5e354b4bd0144b962fd88b55ab0250d (patch) | |
| tree | 709c02f93b62289b4ad97ff411793adc8f7a3414 /doc | |
| parent | 239f8721716015ab194ba853aebc0580f718e7ba (diff) | |
Make the doc a little less defensive.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/index.rst | 21 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index b3201ed..22892c4 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -3211,15 +3211,14 @@ Miscellaneous * ``UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xfoo' in position bar`` (or just about any other - ``UnicodeEncodeError``) - This is not a problem with Beautiful Soup. - This problem shows up in two main situations. First, when you try to - print a Unicode character that your console doesn't know how to - display. (See `this page on the Python wiki - <http://wiki.python.org/moin/PrintFails>`_ for help.) Second, when - you're writing to a file and you pass in a Unicode character that's - not supported by your default encoding. In this case, the simplest - solution is to explicitly encode the Unicode string into UTF-8 with - ``u.encode("utf8")``. + ``UnicodeEncodeError``) - This problem shows up in two main + situations. First, when you try to print a Unicode character that + your console doesn't know how to display. (See `this page on the + Python wiki <http://wiki.python.org/moin/PrintFails>`_ for help.) + Second, when you're writing to a file and you pass in a Unicode + character that's not supported by your default encoding. In this + case, the simplest solution is to explicitly encode the Unicode + string into UTF-8 with ``u.encode("utf8")``. * ``KeyError: [attr]`` - Caused by accessing ``tag['attr']`` when the tag in question doesn't define the ``attr`` attribute. The most @@ -3244,8 +3243,8 @@ Miscellaneous * ``AttributeError: 'NavigableString' object has no attribute 'foo'`` - This usually happens because you're treating a string as - though it were a tag. You may be iterating over a list, thinking - that it contains only tags, when it actually contains both tags and + though it were a tag. You may be iterating over a list, expecting + that it contains nothing but tags, when it actually contains both tags and strings. |