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@@ -64,8 +64,9 @@ so bad that it barely worked at all. Beautiful Soup 4 works with Python 3, and since its parser is pluggable, you don't sacrifice quality. -Special thanks to Thomas Kluyver for getting Python 3 support to the -finish line. +Special thanks to Thomas Kluyver and Ezio Melotti for getting Python 3 +support to the finish line. Ezio Melotti is also to thank for greatly +improving the HTML parser that comes with Python 3.2. == Better method names == @@ -95,18 +96,22 @@ Methods have been renamed for compatibility with Python 3. (This was misleading, anyway, because has_key() looked at a tag's attributes and __in__ looked at a tag's contents.) -Some attributes have also been renamed: +Some attributes have also been renamed, mostly to avoid using words +that have meaning to Python, like "unicode" and "next": - * Tag.isSelfClosing -> Tag.is_empty_element + * Tag.isSelfClosing -> Tag.is_empty_element (backwards compatible) * UnicodeDammit.unicode -> UnicodeDammit.unicode_markup - * Tag.next -> Tag.next_element - * Tag.previous -> Tag.previous_element + (not backwards compatible) + * Tag.next -> Tag.next_element (not backwards compatible) + * Tag.previous -> Tag.previous_element (not backwards compatible) -So have some arguments to popular methods: +So have some arguments to the Beautiful Soup constructor: * BeautifulSoup(parseOnlyThese=...) -> BeautifulSoup(parse_only=...) * BeautifulSoup(fromEncoding=...) -> BeautifulSoup(from_encoding=...) + You can use the old names, but you'll get a DeprecationError. + == Generators are now properties == The generators have been given more sensible (and PEP 8-compliant) @@ -208,4 +213,5 @@ Here's how to do it with Python 3.2: $ cd python3.2/bs4 $ python3.2 -m unittest discover -s bs4 -The script test-all-versions will run the tests twice. +The script test-all-versions will run the tests twice, once on Python +2.7 and once on Python 3.2. |