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diff --git a/bs4/__init__.py b/bs4/__init__.py index 68e9fed..b7f4898 100644 --- a/bs4/__init__.py +++ b/bs4/__init__.py @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ from .element import ( Tag, ) +# The very first thing we do is give a useful error if someone is +# running this code under Python 3 without converting it. +syntax_error = u'You are trying to run the Python 2 version of Beautiful Soup under Python 3. This will not work. You need to convert the code, either by installing it (`python setup.py install`) or by running 2to3 (`2to3 -w bs4`).' + class BeautifulSoup(Tag): """ This class defines the basic interface called by the tree builders. |