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@@ -42,13 +42,17 @@ code and plug in any HTML or XML parser you want.
Beautiful Soup 4.0 comes with glue code for four parsers:
- * Python's standard HTMLParser
+ * Python's standard HTMLParser (html.parser in Python 3)
* lxml's HTML and XML parsers
* html5lib's HTML parser
HTMLParser is the default, but I recommend you install one of the
other parsers, or you'll have problems handling real-world markup.
+For complete documentation, see the Sphinx documentation in
+docs/source. What follows is a summary of the changes from Beautiful
+Soup 3.
+
== The module name has changed ==
Previously you imported the BeautifulSoup class from a module also
@@ -122,7 +126,7 @@ names, and turned into properties:
* nextSiblingGenerator() -> next_siblings
* previousGenerator() -> previous_elements
* previousSiblingGenerator() -> previous_siblings
- * recursiveChildGenerator() -> recursive_children
+ * recursiveChildGenerator() -> descendants
* parentGenerator() -> parents
So instead of this: