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2018-07-15Introduced the Formatter system. [bug=1716272].Leonard Richardson
2018-07-15It's possible for a TreeBuilder subclass to specify that voidLeonard Richardson
elements should be represented as <element> rather than <element/>, by setting TreeBuilder.void_element_close_prefix to the empty string. [bug=1716272]
2018-07-15Stop data loss when encountering an empty numeric entity, andLeonard Richardson
possibly in other cases. Thanks to tos.kamiya for the fix. [bug=1698503]
2018-07-14Stopped HTMLParser from raising an exception in very rare cases ofLeonard Richardson
bad markup. [bug=1708831]
2018-07-14Fixed a Windows crash in diagnose() when checking whether a longLeonard Richardson
markup string is a filename. [bug=1737121]
2018-07-14Fixed code that was causing deprecation warnings in recent Python 3Leonard Richardson
versions. Includes a patch from Ville Skyttä. [bug=1778909] [bug=1689496]
2018-07-14Improve the warning given when no parser is specified. [bug=1780571]Leonard Richardson
2017-05-07Prep for 4.6.0 release.Leonard Richardson
2017-05-07Namespace prefix is preserved when an XML tag is copied. ThanksLeonard Richardson
to Vikas for a patch and test. [bug=1685172]
2017-05-06Replace get_attribute_text with get_attribute_list.Leonard Richardson
2017-05-06 Improved the handling of empty-element tags like <br> when using theLeonard Richardson
html.parser parser. [bug=1676935]
2017-05-06Renamed convenience method to get_attribute_text.Leonard Richardson
2017-05-06Added the method, which acts like forLeonard Richardson
getting the value of an attribute, but which joins attribute multi-values into a single string value. [bug=1678589]
2017-05-06HTML parsers treat all HTML4 and HTML5 empty element tags (aka void element ↵Leonard Richardson
tags) correctly. [bug=1656909]
2017-05-06It's now possible to use a tag's namespace prefix when searching,Leonard Richardson
e.g. soup.find('namespace:tag') [bug=1655332]
2017-01-02I need to do another release because of an error while running the release ↵Leonard Richardson
script.
2017-01-02Prep for 4.5.2 release.Leonard Richardson
2016-12-19Fixed foster parenting when html5lib is the tree builder. Thanks to Geoffrey ↵Leonard Richardson
Sneddon for a patch and test.
2016-12-19Fixed yet another problem that caused the html5lib tree builder toLeonard Richardson
2016-08-02Bump version number.Leonard Richardson
2016-07-30Explained why we test both unicode and bytestring processing instructions.Leonard Richardson
2016-07-26Fixed a reported (but not duplicated) bug involving processing instructions ↵Leonard Richardson
fed into the lxml HTML parser.
2016-07-26Spelling fixesVille Skyttä
2016-07-19Updated NEWS in preparation for release.Leonard Richardson
2016-07-18If a search against each individual value of a multi-valuedLeonard Richardson
attribute fails, the search will be run one final time against the complete attribute value considered as a single string. [bug=1476868]
2016-07-18Corrected an encoding error that happened when a BeautifulSoupLeonard Richardson
object was copied. [bug=1554439]
2016-07-18Added support for CSS selector values that contain quoted spaces,Leonard Richardson
such as tag[style="display: foo"]. [bug=1540588]
2016-07-18The argument to now works correctly, though it'sLeonard Richardson
not implemented very efficiently. [bug=1520530]
2016-07-17 When a BeautifulSoup object is pickled but its tree builder cannotLeonard Richardson
be pickled, its .builder attribute is set to None instead of being destroyed. This avoids a performance problem once the object is unpickled. [bug=1523629]
2016-07-17Although the previously fixed problem only occurs when using the html5lib ↵Leonard Richardson
tree builder, it's not actually a problem with the tree builder itself.
2016-07-17Fixed a bug in the html5lib treebuilder that deranged the treeLeonard Richardson
when a whitespace element was reparented into a tag that contained an identical whitespace element. [bug=1505351]
2016-07-16Beautiful Soup will now work with versions of html5lib greater thanLeonard Richardson
0.99999999. [bug=1603299]
2016-07-16We don't run the check for a filename passed in as markup if theLeonard Richardson
'filename' contains a less-than character; the less-than character indicates it's most likely a very small document. [bug=1577864]
2016-07-16Specify the file and line number when warning about aLeonard Richardson
BeautifulSoup object being instantiated without a parser being specified. [bug=1574647]
2016-07-16The contents of <textarea> tags will no longer be modified when theLeonard Richardson
tree is prettified. [bug=1555829]
2016-07-16Fixed a Python 3 ByteWarning when a URL was passed in as though itLeonard Richardson
were markup. Thanks to James Salter for a patch and test. [bug=1533762]
2015-09-28Fixed a parse bug with the html5lib tree-builder. Thanks to RoelLeonard Richardson
Kramer for the patch. [bug=1483781]
2015-09-28Improved the implementation of CSS selector grouping. Thanks to Orangain for ↵Leonard Richardson
the patch. [bug=1484543]
2015-09-28Corrected the output of Declaration objects. [bug=1477847]Leonard Richardson
2015-09-28Fixed a bug that deranged the tree when part of it wasLeonard Richardson
removed. Thanks to Eric Weiser for the patch and John Wiseman for a test. [bug=1481520]
2015-07-05Fixed the test_detect_utf8 test so that it works when chardet isLeonard Richardson
installed. [bug=1471359]
2015-07-03Turns out setup.py requiring lxml was never in a released version which is a ↵Leonard Richardson
big relief as we don't need that anymore.
2015-07-03Change setup.py to focus on creating wheels.Leonard Richardson
2015-06-28 It's now possible to pickle a BeautifulSoup object no matter whichLeonard Richardson
tree builder was used to create it. However, the only tree builder that survives the pickling process is the HTMLParserTreeBuilder ('html.parser'). If you unpickle a BeautifulSoup object created with some other tree builder, soup.builder will be None. [bug=1231545]
2015-06-28Changed the way soup objects work under copy.copy(). Copying aLeonard Richardson
NavigableString or a Tag will give you a new NavigableString that's equal to the old one but not connected to the parse tree. Patch by Martijn Peters. [bug=1307490]
2015-06-28Copying a NavigableString will give you a new NavigableString that is not ↵Leonard Richardson
connected to the parse tree.
2015-06-28Reorganized changelog.Leonard Richardson
2015-06-28Fixed a bug where Element.extract() could create an infinite loop inLeonard Richardson
the remaining tree.
2015-06-28Raise a NotImplementedError whenever an unsupported CSS pseudoclassLeonard Richardson
is used in select(). Previously some cases did not result in a NotImplementedError.
2015-06-27Added an exclude_encodings argument to UnicodeDammit and to theLeonard Richardson
Beautiful Soup constructor, which lets you prohibit the detection of an encoding that you know is wrong. [bug=1469408]