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@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@ = 4.2.0 (Unreleased) = -* In an HTML document, the contents of a <script> or <style> tag will - no longer undergo entity substitution by default. XML documents work - the same way they did before. [bug=1085953] +* The Tag.select() method now supports a much wider variety of CSS + selectors. -* Methods like get_text() and properties like .strings now only give - you strings that are visible in the document--no comments or - processing commands. [bug=1050164] + - Added support for the adjacent sibling combinator (+) and the + general sibling combinator (~). Tests by "liquider". [bug=1082144] + + - The combinators (>, +, and ~) can now combine with any supported + selector, not just one that selects based on tag name. + + - Added limited support for the "nth-of-type" pseudo-class. Code + by Sven Slootweg. [bug=1109952] * The BeautifulSoup class is now aliased to "_s" and "_soup", making it quicker to type the import statement in an interactive session: @@ -21,26 +25,28 @@ * 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, + - 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 + - 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 + - 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] +* In an HTML document, the contents of a <script> or <style> tag will + no longer undergo entity substitution by default. XML documents work + the same way they did before. [bug=1085953] -* Added support for the "nth-of-type" CSS selector. Code by Sven - Slootweg. [bug=1109952] +* Methods like get_text() and properties like .strings now only give + you strings that are visible in the document--no comments or + processing commands. [bug=1050164] -* The CSS selector ">" can now find a tag by means other than the - tag name. Code by Sven Slootweg. [bug=1109952] +* The prettify() method now leaves the contents of <pre> tags + alone. [bug=1095654] * Fix a bug in the html5lib treebuilder which sometimes created disconnected trees. [bug=1039527] |