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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 33901db..b88757b 100755 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -2230,7 +2230,7 @@ in Beautiful Soup 4.10.0.` ``wrap()`` ---------- -``PageElement.wrap()`` wraps an element in the :py:class`Tag` object you specify. It +``PageElement.wrap()`` wraps an element in the :py:class:`Tag` object you specify. It returns the new wrapper:: soup = BeautifulSoup("<p>I wish I was bold.</p>", 'html.parser') @@ -3107,7 +3107,7 @@ three :py:class:`SoupStrainer` objects:: # ... # -The `:py:class:`SoupStrainer`` behavior is as follows: +The :py:class:`SoupStrainer` behavior is as follows: * When a tag matches, it is kept (including all its contents, whether they also match or not). @@ -3433,23 +3433,19 @@ Beautiful Soup 3 ================ Beautiful Soup 3 is the previous release series, and is no longer -being actively developed. It's currently packaged with all major Linux -distributions: - -:kbd:`$ apt-get install python-beautifulsoup` - -It's also published through PyPi as :py:class:`BeautifulSoup`.: - -:kbd:`$ easy_install BeautifulSoup` +supported. Development of Beautiful Soup 3 stopped in 2012, and the +package was completely discontinued in 2021. There's no reason to +install it unless you're trying to get very old software to work, but +it's published through PyPi as :py:class:`BeautifulSoup`: :kbd:`$ pip install BeautifulSoup` -You can also `download a tarball of Beautiful Soup 3.2.0 -<http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs3/download/3.x/BeautifulSoup-3.2.0.tar.gz>`_. +You can also download `a tarball of the final release, 3.2.2 +<https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/3.x/BeautifulSoup-3.2.2.tar.gz>`_. -If you ran ``easy_install beautifulsoup`` or ``easy_install +If you ran ``pip install beautifulsoup`` or ``pip install BeautifulSoup``, but your code doesn't work, you installed Beautiful -Soup 3 by mistake. You need to run ``easy_install beautifulsoup4``. +Soup 3 by mistake. You need to run ``pip install beautifulsoup4``. `The documentation for Beautiful Soup 3 is archived online <http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs3/documentation.html>`_. |