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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 91bd42b..b3201ed 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -3147,7 +3147,7 @@ The most common type of unexpected behavior is that you can't find a tag that you know is in the document. You saw it going in, but ``find_all()`` returns ``[]`` or ``find()`` returns ``None``. This is another common problem with Python's built-in HTML parser, which -sometimes skips tags it doesn't understand. Again, the solution is to +sometimes skips tags it doesn't understand. Again, the best solution is to :ref:`install lxml or html5lib. <parser-installation>` Version mismatch problems @@ -3242,6 +3242,13 @@ Miscellaneous returning a tag or a string. You need to figure out why your ``find()`` call isn't returning anything. +* ``AttributeError: 'NavigableString' object has no attribute + 'foo'`` - This usually happens because you're treating a string as + though it were a tag. You may be iterating over a list, thinking + that it contains only tags, when it actually contains both tags and + strings. + + Improving Performance --------------------- |