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@@ -6,16 +6,15 @@ Python 2 was revision 70f546b1e689a70e2f103795efce6d261a3dadf7. = 4.12.1 (Unreleased) * The main improvement in this version is a nonrecursive technique - for reconstructing the parser events that led to a particular - tree structure. This technique is used to avoid situations where, + for regenerating a tree. This technique is used to avoid situations where, in previous versions, doing something to a very deeply nested tree would overflow the Python interpreter stack: - 1. Outputting a parse tree as a string - (e.g. BeautifulSoup.encode()) [bug=1471755] + 1. Outputting a tree as a string, e.g. with + BeautifulSoup.encode() [bug=1471755] - 2. Making copies of parse trees (copy.copy() and - copy.deepcopy() from the Python standard library). + 2. Making copies of trees (copy.copy() and + copy.deepcopy() from the Python standard library). [bug=1709837] 3. Pickling a BeautifulSoup object. (Note that pickling a Tag object can still cause an overflow.) @@ -24,18 +23,21 @@ Python 2 was revision 70f546b1e689a70e2f103795efce6d261a3dadf7. document again, which should improve performance significantly. * When a BeautifulSoup object is unpickled, Beautiful Soup now - tries to associate an appropriate TreeBuilder with it - rather than giving up. + tries to associate an appropriate TreeBuilder object with it. * Tag.prettify() will now consistently end prettified markup with a newline. * Added unit tests for fuzz test cases created by third parties. Most of these tests are skipped since they either point - out problems in code outside of Beautiful Soup, or problems with - Beautiful Soup that haven't been resolved yet; but this change + out problems in code outside of Beautiful Soup, or known problems + with Beautiful Soup that haven't been resolved yet; but this change puts them all in one convenient place. +* PageElement now implements the known_xml attribute. (This was technically + a bug, but it shouldn't be an issue in normal use.) [bug=2007895] + + = 4.12.0 (20230320) * Introduced the .css property, which centralizes all access to |