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@@ -15,8 +15,23 @@ or from bs4 import _soup - This may change in the future, so don't use this in code that goes - into a file. + The alias may change in the future, so don't use this in code you're + going to run more than once. + +* Added the 'diagnose' submodule, which includes several useful + functions for reporting problems and doing tech support. + + * diagnose(data) tries the given markup on every installed parser, + reporting exceptions and displaying successes. If a parser is not + installed, diagnose() mentions this fact. + + * lxml_trace(data, html=True) runs the given markup through lxml's + XML parser or HTML parser, and prints out the parser events as + they happen. This helps you quickly determine whether a given + problem occurs in lxml code or Beautiful Soup code. + + * htmlparser_trace(data) is the same thing, but for Python's + built-in HTMLParser class. * The prettify() method now leaves the contents of <pre> tags alone. [bug=1095654] |