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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]
2015-06-25Introduced the select_one() method, which uses a CSS selector butLeonard Richardson
only returns the first match, instead of a list of matches. [bug=1349367]
2015-06-25The text argument to the find_* methods is now called string,Leonard Richardson
which is more accurate. text still works, but is the argument described in the documentation. text may eventually change its meaning, but not for a very long time. [bug=1366856]
2015-06-25You can now create a NavigableString or a subclass just by invokingLeonard Richardson
the constructor. [bug=1294315]
2015-06-25Improved the exception raised when you call .unwrap() orLeonard Richardson
.replace_with() on an element that's not attached to a tree.
2015-06-25In Python 3, __str__ now returns a Unicode string insteadLeonard Richardson
of a bytestring. [bug=1420131]
2015-06-25__repr__ now returns an ASCII bytestring in Python 2, and a Unicode string ↵Leonard Richardson
in Python 3, instead of a UTF8-encoded bytestring in both versions. [bug=1420131]
2015-06-25Fixed a crash in Unicode, Dammit's encoding detector when the nameLeonard Richardson
of the encoding itself contained invalid bytes. [bug=1360913]
2015-06-24Fixed an import error in Python 3.5 caused by the removal of theLeonard Richardson
2015-06-24If the initial <html> tag contains a CDATA list attribute such asLeonard Richardson
'class', the html5lib tree builder will now turn its value into a list, as it would with any other tag. [bug=1296481]
2015-06-24The select() method can now find tags with attributes whose namesLeonard Richardson
contain dashes. Patch by Marek Kapolka. [bug=1304007]
2015-06-24Improved docstring for encode_contents() and decode_contents(). [bug=1441543]Leonard Richardson
2015-06-24Started using a standard MIT license. [bug=1294662]Leonard Richardson
2015-06-23Fixed yet another bug that caused a disconnected tree when html5libLeonard Richardson
copied an element from one part of the tree to another. [bug=1270611]
2015-06-23Force object_was_parsed() to keep the tree intact even when an elementLeonard Richardson
from later in the document is moved into place. [bug=1430633]
2014-12-11Improved the lxml tree builder's handling of processingLeonard Richardson
instructions. [bug=1294645]
2014-12-11The select() method can now find tags whose names containLeonard Richardson
dashes. Patch by Francisco Canas [bug=1276211]
2014-12-10The warning when you pass in a filename or URL as markup will now beLeonard Richardson
displayed correctly even if the filename or URL is a Unicode string. [bug=1268888]
2014-12-10The select() method now supports selector grouping. Patch byLeonard Richardson
Francisco Canas [bug=1191917]
2014-12-07In Python 3.4 and above, set the new convert_charrefs argument toLeonard Richardson
the html.parser constructor to avoid a warning and future failures. Patch by Stefano Revera. [bug=1375721]
2014-12-07Added a warning when you instantiate a BeautifulSoup object withoutLeonard Richardson
explicitly naming a parser. [bug=1398866]
2013-12-07Added a Chinese translation of the documentation by Delong .w.Leonard Richardson
2013-10-18Fixed yet another problem that caused the html5lib tree builder toLeonard Richardson
create a disconnected parse tree. [bug=1237763]
2013-10-02Restored the helpful syntax error that happens when you try toLeonard Richardson
import the Python 2 edition of Beautiful Soup under Python 3. [bug=1213387]
2013-10-02Prep for release.Leonard Richardson
2013-10-02Fixed a bug that caused Unicode data put into UnicodeDammit toLeonard Richardson
return None instead of the original data. [bug=1214983]
2013-10-01 Fixed a crash when a short input contains data not valid inLeonard Richardson
filenames. [bug=1232604]
2013-10-01Fixed a bug in which short Unicode input was improperly encoded to ASCII ↵Leonard Richardson
when checking whether or not it was a file on disk. [bug=1227016]
2013-08-19Fixed typo.Leonard Richardson
2013-08-19Combined two tests to stop a spurious test failure when tests areLeonard Richardson
run by nodetests. [bug=1212445]
2013-08-15Updated NEWS.Leonard Richardson
2013-08-13* Fixed yet another problem with the html5lib tree builder, caused byLeonard Richardson
html5lib's tendency to rearrange the tree during parsing. [bug=1189267]
2013-08-12Prep for release.Leonard Richardson
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