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@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ = 4.10.0 (unreleased) +Beautiful Soup's official support for Python 2 ended on December 31st, +2020. This release supports both Python 2 and Python 3, but there's no +guarantee that this will hold for the next release. + * The behavior of methods like .get_text() and .strings now differs depending on the type of tag. The change is visible with HTML tags like <script>, <style>, and <template>. Starting in 4.9.0, methods @@ -19,6 +23,12 @@ itself. That's because different tags now have different understandings of what counts as 'text'. [bug=1906226] [bug=1868861] +* NavigableString and its subclasses now implement the get_text() + method, as well as the properties .strings and + .stripped_strings. These methods will either return the string + itself, or nothing, so the only reason to use this is when iterating + over a list of mixed Tag and NavigableString objects. [bug=1904309] + * The 'html5' formatter now treats attributes whose values are the empty string as HTML boolean attributes. Previously (and in other formatters), an attribute value must be set as None to be treated as |