beautifulsoup4-4.14.2/CHANGELOG 0000644 0000000 0000000 00000276066 13615410400 012730 0 ustar 00 = 4.14.2 (20250929)
* Making ResultSet inherit from MutableSequence still resulted in too many
breaking changes in users of the library, so I reverted the
ResultSet code back to where it was in 4.13.5 and added tests of all known
breaking behavior. [bug=2125906]
= 4.14.1 (20250929)
* Made ResultSet inherit from MutableSequence instead of Sequence,
since lots of existing code treats ResultSet as a mutable list.
[bug=2125906,2125903]
= 4.14.0 (20250927)
* This version adds function overloading to the find_* methods to make
it easier to write type-safe Python.
In most cases you can just assign the result of a find() or
find_all() call to the type of object you're expecting to get back:
a Tag, a NavigableString, a Sequence[Tag], or a
Sequence[NavigableString]. It's very rare that you'll have to do a
cast or suppress type-checker warnings like you did in previous
versions of Beautiful Soup.
(In fact, the only time you should still have to do this is if you
pass both 'string' and one of the other arguments into one of the
find* methods, e.g. tag.find("a", string="tag contents".)
The following code has been verified to pass type checking using
mypy, pyright, and the Visual Studio Code IDE. It's available in
the source repository as scripts/type_checking_smoke_test.py.
---
from typing import Optional, Sequence
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Tag, NavigableString
soup = BeautifulSoup("
", 'html.parser')
tag:Optional[Tag]
string:Optional[NavigableString]
tags:Sequence[Tag]
strings:Sequence[NavigableString]
tag = soup.find()
tag = soup.find(id="a")
string = soup.find(string="b")
tags = soup()
tags = soup(id="a")
strings = soup(string="b")
tags = soup.find_all()
tags = soup.find_all(id="a")
strings = soup.find_all(string="b")
tag = soup.find_next()
tag = soup.find_next(id="a")
string = soup.find_next(string="b")
tags = soup.find_all_next()
tags = soup.find_all_next(id="a")
strings = soup.find_all_next(string="b")
tag = soup.find_next_sibling()
tag = soup.find_next_sibling(id="a")
string = soup.find_next_sibling(string="b")
tags = soup.find_next_siblings()
tags = soup.find_next_siblings(id="a")
strings = soup.find_next_siblings(string="b")
tag = soup.find_previous()
tag = soup.find_previous(id="a")
string = soup.find_previous(string="b")
tags = soup.find_all_previous()
tags = soup.find_all_previous(id="a")
strings = soup.find_all_previous(string="b")
tag = soup.find_previous_sibling()
tag = soup.find_previous_sibling(id="a")
string = soup.find_previous_sibling(string="bold")
tags = soup.find_previous_siblings()
tags = soup.find_previous_siblings(id="a")
strings = soup.find_previous_siblings(string="b")
tag = soup.find_parent()
tag = soup.find_parent(id="a")
tags = soup.find_parents()
tags = soup.find_parents(id="a")
# This code will work, but mypy and pyright will both flag it.
tags = soup.find_all("a", string="b")
---
* The typing for find_parent() and find_parents() was improved without
any overloading. Casts should never be necessary, since those
methods only ever return Tag and ResultSet[Tag], respectively.
* ResultSet now inherits from Sequence. This should make it easier to
incorporate ResultSet objects into your type system without needing to
handle ResultSet specially.
* Fixed an unhandled exception when creating the string representation of
a decomposed element. (The output is not *useful* and you still
shouldn't do this, but it won't raise an exception anymore.) [bug=2120300]
* The default value for the 'attrs' attribute in find* methods is now
None, not the empty dictionary. This should have no visible effect
on anything.
= 4.13.5 (20250824)
* Fixed an unhandled exception when parsing invalid markup that contains the { character
when using lxml==6.0.0. [bug=2116306]
* Fixed a regression when matching a multi-valued attribute against the
empty string. [bug=2115352]
* Unit tests and test case data are no longer packaged with the wheel. [bug=2107495]
* Fixed a bug that gave the wrong result when parsing the empty bytestring. [bug=2110492]
* Brought the Spanish translation of the documentation up to date with
4.13.4. Courtesy of Carlos Romero.
* For Python 3.13 and above, disabled tests that verify Beautiful Soup's handling of htmlparser's
exceptions when given very bad markup. The bug in htmlparser that caused
this behavior has been fixed. Patch courtesy of Stefano Rivera.
* Used overloading to improve type hints for prettify().
* Updated the SoupStrainer documentation to clarify that during initial
parsing, attribute values are always passed into the SoupStrainer as raw strings. [bug=2111651]
* Fixed all type checking errors issued by pyright. (Previously only mypy
was used for type checking.)
* Improved the type hints for PageElement.replace_with. [bug=2114746]
* Improved the type hint for the arguments of the lambda function that can
be used to match a tag's attribute. [bug=2110401]
* Modified some of the lxml tests to accommodate behavioral changes in libxml2
2.14.3. Specifically:
1. XML declarations and processing instructions in HTML documents
are rewritten as comments. Note that this means XHTML documents will
now turn into regular HTML documents if run through the 'lxml'
parser. The 'xml' parser is unaffected.
2. Out-of-range numeric entities are replaced with REPLACEMENT
CHARACTER rather than omitted entirely. [bug=2112242]
= 4.13.4 (20250415)
* If you pass a function as the first argument to a find* method, the
function will only ever be called once per tag, with the Tag object
as the argument. Starting in 4.13.0, there were cases where the
function would be called with a Tag object and then called again
with the name of the tag. [bug=2106435]
* Added a passthrough implementation for NavigableString.__getitem__ which gives a
more helpful exception if the user tries to treat it as a Tag and
access its HTML attributes.
* Fixed a bug that caused an exception when unpickling the result of
parsing certain invalid markup with lxml as the tree builder. [bug=2103126]
* Converted the AUTHORS file to UTF-8 for PEP8 compliance. [bug=2107405]
= 4.13.3 (20250204)
* Modified the 4.13.2 change slightly to restore backwards
compatibility. Specifically, calling a find_* method with no
arguments should return the first Tag out of the iterator, not the
first PageElement. [bug=2097333]
= 4.13.2 (20250204)
* Gave ElementFilter the ability to explicitly say that it excludes
every item in the parse tree. This is used internally in situations
where the provided filters are logically inconsistent or match a
value against the null set.
Without this, it's not always possible to distinguish between
a SoupStrainer that excludes everything and one that excludes
nothing.
This fixes a bug where calls to find_* methods with no arguments
returned None, instead of the first item out of the iterator. [bug=2097333]
Things added to the API to support this:
- The ElementFilter.includes_everything property
- The MatchRule.exclude_everything member
- The _known_rules argument to ElementFilter.match. This is an optional
argument used internally to indicate that an optimization is safe.
= 4.13.1 (20250203)
* Updated pyproject.toml to require Python 3.7 or above. [bug=2097263]
* Pinned the typing-extensions dependency to a minimum version of 4.0.0.
[bug=2097262]
* Restored the English documentation to the source distribution.
[bug=2097237]
* Fixed a regression where HTMLFormatter and XMLFormatter were not
propagating the indent parameter to the superconstructor. [bug=2097272]
= 4.13.0 (20250202)
This release introduces Python type hints to all public classes and
methods in Beautiful Soup. The addition of these type hints exposed a
large number of very small inconsistencies in the code, which I've
fixed, but the result is a larger-than-usual number of deprecations
and changes that may break backwards compatibility.
Chris Papademetrious deserves a special thanks for his work on this
release through its long beta process.
NOTE: This release was yanked from PyPI on 20250203, because bug 2097263
made it difficult to install Beautiful Soup on Python 3.6. You can still
install this version by explicitly pinning beautifulsoup4==4.13.0, but
you really shouldn't need to.
# Deprecation notices
These things now give DeprecationWarnings when you try to use them,
and are scheduled to be removed in Beautiful Soup 4.15.0.
* Every deprecated method, attribute and class from the 3.0 and 2.0
major versions of Beautiful Soup. These have been deprecated for a
very long time, but they didn't issue DeprecationWarning when you
tried to use them. Now they do, and they're all going away soon.
This mainly refers to methods and attributes with camelCase names,
for example: renderContents, replaceWith, replaceWithChildren,
findAll, findAllNext, findAllPrevious, findNext, findNextSibling,
findNextSiblings, findParent, findParents, findPrevious,
findPreviousSibling, findPreviousSiblings, getText, nextSibling,
previousSibling, isSelfClosing, fetchNextSiblings,
fetchPreviousSiblings, fetchPrevious, fetchPreviousSiblings,
fetchParents, findChild, findChildren, childGenerator,
nextGenerator, nextSiblingGenerator, previousGenerator,
previousSiblingGenerator, recursiveChildGenerator, and
parentGenerator.
This also includes the BeautifulStoneSoup class.
* The SAXTreeBuilder class, which was never officially supported or tested.
* The private class method BeautifulSoup._decode_markup(), which has not
been used inside Beautiful Soup for many years.
* The first argument to BeautifulSoup.decode has been changed from
pretty_print:bool to indent_level:int, to match the signature of
Tag.decode. Using a bool will still work but will give you a
DeprecationWarning.
* SoupStrainer.text and SoupStrainer.string are both deprecated, since
a single item can't capture all the possibilities of a SoupStrainer
designed to match strings.
* SoupStrainer.search_tag(). It was never a documented method, but if
you use it, you should start using SoupStrainer.allow_tag_creation()
instead.
* The soup:BeautifulSoup argument to the TreeBuilderForHtml5lib
constructor is now required, not optional. It's unclear why it was
optional in the first place, so if you discover you need this,
contact me for possible un-deprecation.
# Compatibility notices
* This version drops support for Python 3.6. The minimum supported
major Python version for Beautiful Soup is now Python 3.7.
* Deprecation warnings have been added for all deprecated methods and
attributes (see above). Going forward, deprecated names will be
removed two feature releases or one major release after the
deprecation warning is added.
* The storage for a tag's attribute values now modifies incoming values
to be consistent with the HTML or XML spec. This means that if you set an
attribute value to a number, it will be converted to a string
immediately, rather than being converted when you output the document.
[bug=2065525]
More importantly for backwards compatibility, setting an HTML
attribute value to True will set the attribute's value to the
appropriate string per the HTML spec. Setting an attribute value to
False or None will remove the attribute value from the tag
altogether, rather than (effectively, as before) setting the value
to the string "False" or the string "None".
This means that some programs that modify documents will generate
different output than they would in earlier versions of Beautiful Soup,
but the new documents are more likely to represent the intent behind the
modifications.
To give a specific example, if you have code that looks something like this:
checkbox1['checked'] = True
checkbox2['checked'] = False
Then a document that used to look like this (with most browsers
treating both boxes as checked):
Will now look like this (with browsers treating only the first box
as checked):
You can get the old behavior back by instantiating a TreeBuilder
with `attribute_dict_class=dict`, or you can customize how Beautiful Soup
treates attribute values by passing in a custom subclass of dict.
* If Tag.get_attribute_list() is used to access an attribute that's not set,
the return value is now an empty list rather than [None].
* If you pass an empty list as the attribute value when searching the
tree, you will now find all tags which have that attribute set to a value in
the empty list--that is, you will find nothing. This is consistent with other
situations where a list of acceptable values is provided. Previously, an
empty list was treated the same as None and False, and you would have
found the tags which did not have that attribute set at all. [bug=2045469]
* For similar reasons, if you pass in limit=0 to a find() method, you
will now get zero results. Previously, you would get all matching results.
* When using one of the find() methods or creating a SoupStrainer,
if you specify the same attribute value in ``attrs`` and the
keyword arguments, you'll end up with two different ways to match that
attribute. Previously the value in keyword arguments would override the
value in ``attrs``.
* All exceptions were moved to the bs4.exceptions module, and all
warnings to the bs4._warnings module (named so as not to shadow
Python's built-in warnings module). All warnings and exceptions are
exported from the bs4 module, which is probably the safest place to
import them from in your own code.
* As a side effect of this, the string constant
BeautifulSoup.NO_PARSER_SPECIFIED_WARNING was moved to
GuessedAtParserWarning.MESSAGE.
* The 'html5' formatter is now much less aggressive about escaping
ampersands, escaping only the ampersands considered "ambiguous" by the HTML5
spec (which is almost none of them). This is the sort of change that
might break your unit test suite, but the resulting markup will be much more
readable and more HTML5-ish.
To quickly get the old behavior back, change code like this:
tag.encode(formatter='html5')
to this:
tag.encode(formatter='html5-4.12')
In the future, the 'html5' formatter may be become the default HTML
formatter, which will change Beautiful Soup's default output. This
will break a lot of test suites so it's not going to happen for a
while. [bug=1902431]
* Tag.sourceline and Tag.sourcepos now always have a consistent data
type: Optional[int]. Previously these values were sometimes an
Optional[int], and sometimes they were Optional[Tag], the result of
searching for a child tag called or
. [bug=2065904]
If your code does search for a tag called or
, it may stop finding that tag when you upgrade to
Beautiful Soup 4.13. If this happens, you'll need to replace code
that treats "sourceline" or "sourcepos" as tag names:
tag.sourceline
with code that explicitly calls the find() method:
tag.find("sourceline").name
Making the behavior of sourceline and sourcepos consistent has the
side effect of fixing a major performance problem when a Tag is
copied.
With this change, the store_line_numbers argument to the
BeautifulSoup constructor becomes much less useful, and its use is
now discouraged, thought I'm not deprecating it yet. Please contact
me if you have a performance or security rationale for setting
store_line_numbers=False.
* append(), extend(), insert(), and unwrap() were moved from PageElement to
Tag. Those methods manipulate the 'contents' collection, so they would
only have ever worked on Tag objects.
* The BeautifulSoupHTMLParser constructor now requires a BeautifulSoup
object as its first argument. This almost certainly does not affect
you, since you probably use HTMLParserTreeBuilder, not
BeautifulSoupHTMLParser directly.
* The TreeBuilderForHtml5lib methods fragmentClass(), getFragment(),
and testSerializer() now raise NotImplementedError. These methods
are called only by html5lib's test suite, and Beautiful Soup isn't
integrated into that test suite, so this code was long since unused and
untested.
These methods are _not_ deprecated, since they are methods defined by
html5lib. They may one day have real implementations, as part of a future
effort to integrate Beautiful Soup into html5lib's test suite.
* AttributeValueWithCharsetSubstitution.encode() is renamed to
substitute_encoding, to avoid confusion with the much different str.encode()
* Using PageElement.replace_with() to replace an element with itself
returns the element instead of None.
* All TreeBuilder constructors now take the empty_element_tags
argument. The sets of tags found in HTMLTreeBuilder.empty_element_tags and
HTMLTreeBuilder.block_elements are now in
HTMLTreeBuilder.DEFAULT_EMPTY_ELEMENT_TAGS and
HTMLTreeBuilder.DEFAULT_BLOCK_ELEMENTS, to avoid confusing them with
instance variables.
* The unused constant LXMLTreeBuilderForXML.DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASS
has been removed.
* Some of the arguments in the methods of LXMLTreeBuilderForXML
have been renamed for consistency with the names lxml uses for those
arguments in the superclass. This won't affect you unless you were
calling methods like LXMLTreeBuilderForXML.start() directly.
* In particular, the arguments to LXMLTreeBuilderForXML.prepare_markup
have been changed to match the arguments to the superclass,
TreeBuilder.prepare_markup. Specifically, document_declared_encoding
now appears before exclude_encodings, not after. If you were calling
this method yourself, I recommend switching to using keyword
arguments instead.
# New features
* The new ElementFilter class encapsulates Beautiful Soup's rules
about matching elements and deciding which parts of a document to
parse. It's easy to override those rules with subclassing or
function composition. The SoupStrainer class, which contains all the
matching logic you're familiar with from the find_* methods, is now
a subclass of ElementFilter.
* The new PageElement.filter() method provides a fully general way of
finding elements in a Beautiful Soup parse tree. You can specify a
function to iterate over the tree and an ElementFilter to determine
what matches.
* The new_tag() method now takes a 'string' argument. This allows you to
set the string contents of a Tag when creating it. Patch by Chris
Papademetrious. [bug=2044599]
* Defined a number of new iterators which are the same as existing iterators,
but which yield the element itself before beginning to traverse the
tree. [bug=2052936] [bug=2067634]
- PageElement.self_and_parents
- PageElement.self_and_descendants
- PageElement.self_and_next_elements
- PageElement.self_and_next_siblings
- PageElement.self_and_previous_elements
- PageElement.self_and_previous_siblings
self_and_parents yields the element you call it on and then all of its
parents. self_and_next_element yields the element you call it on and then
every element parsed afterwards; and so on.
* The NavigableString class now has a .string property which returns the
string itself. This makes it easier to iterate over a mixed list
of Tag and NavigableString objects. [bug=2044794]
* Defined a new method, Tag.copy_self(), which creates a copy of a Tag
with the same attributes but no contents. [bug=2065120]
Note that this method used to be a private method named
_clone(). The _clone() method has been removed, so if you were using
it, change your code to call copy_self() instead.
* The PageElement.append() method now returns the element that was
appended; it used to have no return value. [bug=2093025]
* The methods PageElement.insert(), PageElement.extend(),
PageElement.insert_before(), and PageElement.insert_after() now return a
list of the items inserted. These methods used to have no return
value. [bug=2093025]
* The PageElement.insert() method now takes a variable number of
arguments and returns a list of all elements inserted, to match
insert_before() and insert_after(). (Even if I hadn't made the
variable-argument change, an edge case around inserting one
Beautiful Soup object into another means that insert()'s return
value needs to be a list.) [bug=2093025]
* Defined a new warning class, UnusualUsageWarning, which is a superclass
for all of the warnings issued when Beautiful Soup notices something
unusual but not guaranteed to be wrong, like markup that looks like
a URL (MarkupResemblesLocatorWarning) or XML being run through an HTML
parser (XMLParsedAsHTMLWarning).
The text of these warnings has been revamped to explain in more
detail what is going on, how to check if you've made a mistake,
and how to make the warning go away if you are acting deliberately.
If these warnings are interfering with your workflow, or simply
annoying you, you can filter all of them by filtering
UnusualUsageWarning, without worrying about losing the warnings
Beautiful Soup issues when there *definitely* is a problem you
need to correct.
* It's now possible to modify the behavior of the list used to store the
values of multi-valued attributes such as HTML 'class', by passing in
whatever class you want instantiated (instead of a normal Python list)
to the TreeBuilder constructor as attribute_value_list_class.
[bug=2052943]
# Improvements
* decompose() was moved from Tag to its superclass PageElement, since
there's no reason it won't also work on NavigableString objects.
* Emit an UnusualUsageWarning if the user tries to search for an attribute
called _class; they probably mean "class_". [bug=2025089]
* The MarkupResemblesLocatorWarning issued when the markup resembles a
filename is now issued less often, due to improvements in detecting
markup that's unlikely to be a filename. [bug=2052988]
* Emit a warning if a document is parsed using a SoupStrainer that's
set up to filter everything. In these cases, filtering everything is
the most consistent thing to do, but there was no indication that
this was happening, so the behavior may have seemed mysterious.
* When using one of the find() methods or creating a SoupStrainer, you can
pass a list of any accepted object (strings, regular expressions, etc.) for
any of the objects. Previously you could only pass in a list of strings.
* A SoupStrainer can now filter tag creation based on a tag's
namespaced name. Previously only the unqualified name could be used.
* Added the correct stacklevel to another instance of the
XMLParsedAsHTMLWarning. [bug=2034451]
* Improved the wording of the TypeError raised when you pass something
other than markup into the BeautifulSoup constructor. [bug=2071530]
* Optimized the case where you use Tag.insert() to "insert" a PageElement
into its current location. [bug=2077020]
* Changes to make tests work whether tests are run under soupsieve 2.6
or an earlier version. Based on a patch by Stefano Rivera.
* Removed the strip_cdata argument to lxml's HTMLParser
constructor, which never did anything and is deprecated as of lxml
5.3.0. Patch by Stefano Rivera. [bug=2076897]
# Bug fixes
* Copying a tag with a multi-valued attribute now makes a copy of the
list of values, eliminating a bug where both the old and new copy
shared the same list. [bug=2067412]
* The lxml TreeBuilder, like the other TreeBuilders, now filters a
document's initial DOCTYPE if you've set up a SoupStrainer that
eliminates it. [bug=2062000]
* A lot of things can go wrong if you modify the parse tree while
iterating over it, especially if you are removing or replacing
elements. Most of those things fall under the category of unexpected
behavior (which is why I don't recommend doing this), but there
are a few ways that caused unhandled exceptions. The list
comprehensions used by Beautiful Soup (e.g. .descendants, which
powers the find* methods) should now work correctly in those cases,
or at least not raise exceptions.
As part of this work, I changed when the list comprehension
determines the next element. Previously it was done after the yield
statement; now it's done before the yield statement. This lets you
remove the yielded element in calling code, or modify it in a way that
would break this calculation, without causing an exception.
So if your code relies on modifying the tree in a way that 'steers' a
list comprehension, rather than using the list comprension to decide
which bits of the tree to modify, it will probably stop working at
this point. [bug=2091118]
* Fixed an error in the lookup table used when converting
ISO-Latin-1 to ASCII, which no one should do anyway.
* Corrected the markup that's output in the unlikely event that you
encode a document to a Python internal encoding (like "palmos")
that's not recognized by the HTML or XML standard.
* UnicodeDammit.markup is now always a bytestring representing the
*original* markup (sans BOM), and UnicodeDammit.unicode_markup is
always the converted Unicode equivalent of the original
markup. Previously, UnicodeDammit.markup was treated inconsistently
and would often end up containing Unicode. UnicodeDammit.markup was
not a documented attribute, but if you were using it, you probably
want to switch to using .unicode_markup instead.
= 4.12.3 (20240117)
* The Beautiful Soup documentation now has a Spanish translation, thanks
to Carlos Romero. Delong Wang's Chinese translation has been updated
to cover Beautiful Soup 4.12.0.
* Fixed a regression such that if you set .hidden on a tag, the tag
becomes invisible but its contents are still visible. User manipulation
of .hidden is not a documented or supported feature, so don't do this,
but it wasn't too difficult to keep the old behavior working.
* Fixed a case found by Mengyuhan where html.parser giving up on
markup would result in an AssertionError instead of a
ParserRejectedMarkup exception.
* Added the correct stacklevel to instances of the XMLParsedAsHTMLWarning.
[bug=2034451]
* Corrected the syntax of the license definition in pyproject.toml. Patch
by Louis Maddox. [bug=2032848]
* Corrected a typo in a test that was causing test failures when run against
libxml2 2.12.1. [bug=2045481]
= 4.12.2 (20230407)
* Fixed an unhandled exception in BeautifulSoup.decode_contents
and methods that call it. [bug=2015545]
= 4.12.1 (20230405)
NOTE: the following things are likely to be dropped in the next
feature release of Beautiful Soup:
Official support for Python 3.6.
Inclusion of unit tests and test data in the wheel file.
Two scripts: demonstrate_parser_differences.py and test-all-versions.
Changes:
* This version of Beautiful Soup replaces setup.py and setup.cfg
with pyproject.toml. Beautiful Soup now uses tox as its test backend
and hatch to do builds.
* The main functional improvement in this version is a nonrecursive technique
for regenerating a tree. This technique is used to avoid situations where,
in previous versions, doing something to a very deeply nested tree
would overflow the Python interpreter stack:
1. Outputting a tree as a string, e.g. with
BeautifulSoup.encode() [bug=1471755]
2. Making copies of trees (copy.copy() and
copy.deepcopy() from the Python standard library). [bug=1709837]
3. Pickling a BeautifulSoup object. (Note that pickling a Tag
object can still cause an overflow.)
* Making a copy of a BeautifulSoup object no longer parses the
document again, which should improve performance significantly.
* When a BeautifulSoup object is unpickled, Beautiful Soup now
tries to associate an appropriate TreeBuilder object with it.
* Tag.prettify() will now consistently end prettified markup with
a newline.
* Added unit tests for fuzz test cases created by third
parties. Some of these tests are skipped since they point
to problems outside of Beautiful Soup, but this change
puts them all in one convenient place.
* PageElement now implements the known_xml attribute. (This was technically
a bug, but it shouldn't be an issue in normal use.) [bug=2007895]
* The demonstrate_parser_differences.py script was still written in
Python 2. I've converted it to Python 3, but since no one has
mentioned this over the years, it's a sign that no one uses this
script and it's not serving its purpose.
= 4.12.0 (20230320)
* Introduced the .css property, which centralizes all access to
the Soup Sieve API. This allows Beautiful Soup to give direct
access to as much of Soup Sieve that makes sense, without cluttering
the BeautifulSoup and Tag classes with a lot of new methods.
This does mean one addition to the BeautifulSoup and Tag classes
(the .css property itself), so this might be a breaking change if you
happen to use Beautiful Soup to parse XML that includes a tag called
. In particular, code like this will stop working in 4.12.0:
soup.css['id']
Code like this will work just as before:
soup.find_one('css')['id']
The Soup Sieve methods supported through the .css property are
select(), select_one(), iselect(), closest(), match(), filter(),
escape(), and compile(). The BeautifulSoup and Tag classes still
support the select() and select_one() methods; they have not been
deprecated, but they have been demoted to convenience methods.
[bug=2003677]
* When the html.parser parser decides it can't parse a document, Beautiful
Soup now consistently propagates this fact by raising a
ParserRejectedMarkup error. [bug=2007343]
* Removed some error checking code from diagnose(), which is redundant with
similar (but more Pythonic) code in the BeautifulSoup constructor.
[bug=2007344]
* Added intersphinx references to the documentation so that other
projects have a target to point to when they reference Beautiful
Soup classes. [bug=1453370]
= 4.11.2 (20230131)
* Fixed test failures caused by nondeterministic behavior of
UnicodeDammit's character detection, depending on the platform setup.
[bug=1973072]
* Fixed another crash when overriding multi_valued_attributes and using the
html5lib parser. [bug=1948488]
* The HTMLFormatter and XMLFormatter constructors no longer return a
value. [bug=1992693]
* Tag.interesting_string_types is now propagated when a tag is
copied. [bug=1990400]
* Warnings now do their best to provide an appropriate stacklevel,
improving the usefulness of the message. [bug=1978744]
* Passing a Tag's .contents into PageElement.extend() now works the
same way as passing the Tag itself.
* Soup Sieve tests will be skipped if the library is not installed.
= 4.11.1 (20220408)
This release was done to ensure that the unit tests are packaged along
with the released source. There are no functionality changes in this
release, but there are a few other packaging changes:
* The Japanese and Korean translations of the documentation are included.
* The changelog is now packaged as CHANGELOG, and the license file is
packaged as LICENSE. NEWS.txt and COPYING.txt are still present,
but may be removed in the future.
* TODO.txt is no longer packaged, since a TODO is not relevant for released
code.
= 4.11.0 (20220407)
* Ported unit tests to use pytest.
* Added special string classes, RubyParenthesisString and RubyTextString,
to make it possible to treat ruby text specially in get_text() calls.
[bug=1941980]
* It's now possible to customize the way output is indented by
providing a value for the 'indent' argument to the Formatter
constructor. The 'indent' argument works very similarly to the
argument of the same name in the Python standard library's
json.dump() function. [bug=1955497]
* If the charset-normalizer Python module
(https://pypi.org/project/charset-normalizer/) is installed, Beautiful
Soup will use it to detect the character sets of incoming documents.
This is also the module used by newer versions of the Requests library.
For the sake of backwards compatibility, chardet and cchardet both take
precedence if installed. [bug=1955346]
* Added a workaround for an lxml bug
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1948551) that causes
problems when parsing a Unicode string beginning with BYTE ORDER MARK.
[bug=1947768]
* Issue a warning when an HTML parser is used to parse a document that
looks like XML but not XHTML. [bug=1939121]
* Do a better job of keeping track of namespaces as an XML document is
parsed, so that CSS selectors that use namespaces will do the right
thing more often. [bug=1946243]
* Some time ago, the misleadingly named "text" argument to find-type
methods was renamed to the more accurate "string." But this supposed
"renaming" didn't make it into important places like the method
signatures or the docstrings. That's corrected in this
version. "text" still works, but will give a DeprecationWarning.
[bug=1947038]
* Fixed a crash when pickling a BeautifulSoup object that has no
tree builder. [bug=1934003]
* Fixed a crash when overriding multi_valued_attributes and using the
html5lib parser. [bug=1948488]
* Standardized the wording of the MarkupResemblesLocatorWarning
warnings to omit untrusted input and make the warnings less
judgmental about what you ought to be doing. [bug=1955450]
* Removed support for the iconv_codec library, which doesn't seem
to exist anymore and was never put up on PyPI. (The closest
replacement on PyPI, iconv_codecs, is GPL-licensed, so we can't use
it--it's also quite old.)
= 4.10.0 (20210907)
* This is the first release of Beautiful Soup to only support Python
3. I dropped Python 2 support to maintain support for newer versions
(58 and up) of setuptools. See:
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2769 [bug=1942919]
* The behavior of methods like .get_text() and .strings now differs
depending on the type of tag. The change is visible with HTML tags
like
This numeric entity is missing the final semicolon:
"""
class SoupTest(object):
@property
def default_builder(self) -> Type[TreeBuilder]:
return default_builder
def soup(self, markup: _IncomingMarkup, **kwargs: Any) -> BeautifulSoup:
"""Build a Beautiful Soup object from markup."""
builder = kwargs.pop("builder", self.default_builder)
return BeautifulSoup(markup, builder=builder, **kwargs)
def document_for(self, markup: str, **kwargs: Any) -> str:
"""Turn an HTML fragment into a document.
The details depend on the builder.
"""
return self.default_builder(**kwargs).test_fragment_to_document(markup)
def assert_soup(
self, to_parse: _IncomingMarkup, compare_parsed_to: Optional[str] = None
) -> None:
"""Parse some markup using Beautiful Soup and verify that
the output markup is as expected.
"""
builder = self.default_builder
obj = BeautifulSoup(to_parse, builder=builder)
if compare_parsed_to is None:
assert isinstance(to_parse, str)
compare_parsed_to = to_parse
# Verify that the documents come out the same.
assert obj.decode() == self.document_for(compare_parsed_to)
# Also run some checks on the BeautifulSoup object itself:
# Verify that every tag that was opened was eventually closed.
# There are no tags in the open tag counter.
assert all(v == 0 for v in list(obj.open_tag_counter.values()))
# The only tag in the tag stack is the one for the root
# document.
assert [obj.ROOT_TAG_NAME] == [x.name for x in obj.tagStack]
assertSoupEquals = assert_soup
def assertConnectedness(self, element: Tag) -> None:
"""Ensure that next_element and previous_element are properly
set for all descendants of the given element.
"""
earlier = None
for e in element.descendants:
if earlier:
assert e == earlier.next_element
assert earlier == e.previous_element
earlier = e
def linkage_validator(
self, el: Tag, _recursive_call: bool = False
) -> Optional[PageElement]:
"""Ensure proper linkage throughout the document."""
descendant = None
# Document element should have no previous element or previous sibling.
# It also shouldn't have a next sibling.
if el.parent is None:
assert (
el.previous_element is None
), "Bad previous_element\nNODE: {}\nPREV: {}\nEXPECTED: {}".format(
el, el.previous_element, None
)
assert (
el.previous_sibling is None
), "Bad previous_sibling\nNODE: {}\nPREV: {}\nEXPECTED: {}".format(
el, el.previous_sibling, None
)
assert (
el.next_sibling is None
), "Bad next_sibling\nNODE: {}\nNEXT: {}\nEXPECTED: {}".format(
el, el.next_sibling, None
)
idx = 0
child = None
last_child = None
last_idx = len(el.contents) - 1
for child in el.contents:
descendant = None
# Parent should link next element to their first child
# That child should have no previous sibling
if idx == 0:
if el.parent is not None:
assert (
el.next_element is child
), "Bad next_element\nNODE: {}\nNEXT: {}\nEXPECTED: {}".format(
el, el.next_element, child
)
assert (
child.previous_element is el
), "Bad previous_element\nNODE: {}\nPREV: {}\nEXPECTED: {}".format(
child, child.previous_element, el
)
assert (
child.previous_sibling is None
), "Bad previous_sibling\nNODE: {}\nPREV {}\nEXPECTED: {}".format(
child, child.previous_sibling, None
)
# If not the first child, previous index should link as sibling to this index
# Previous element should match the last index or the last bubbled up descendant
else:
assert (
child.previous_sibling is el.contents[idx - 1]
), "Bad previous_sibling\nNODE: {}\nPREV {}\nEXPECTED {}".format(
child, child.previous_sibling, el.contents[idx - 1]
)
assert (
el.contents[idx - 1].next_sibling is child
), "Bad next_sibling\nNODE: {}\nNEXT {}\nEXPECTED {}".format(
el.contents[idx - 1], el.contents[idx - 1].next_sibling, child
)
if last_child is not None:
assert (
child.previous_element is last_child
), "Bad previous_element\nNODE: {}\nPREV {}\nEXPECTED {}\nCONTENTS {}".format(
child, child.previous_element, last_child, child.parent.contents
)
assert (
last_child.next_element is child
), "Bad next_element\nNODE: {}\nNEXT {}\nEXPECTED {}".format(
last_child, last_child.next_element, child
)
if isinstance(child, Tag) and child.contents:
descendant = self.linkage_validator(child, True)
assert descendant is not None
# A bubbled up descendant should have no next siblings
assert (
descendant.next_sibling is None
), "Bad next_sibling\nNODE: {}\nNEXT {}\nEXPECTED {}".format(
descendant, descendant.next_sibling, None
)
# Mark last child as either the bubbled up descendant or the current child
if descendant is not None:
last_child = descendant
else:
last_child = child
# If last child, there are non next siblings
if idx == last_idx:
assert (
child.next_sibling is None
), "Bad next_sibling\nNODE: {}\nNEXT {}\nEXPECTED {}".format(
child, child.next_sibling, None
)
idx += 1
child = descendant if descendant is not None else child
if child is None:
child = el
if not _recursive_call and child is not None:
target: Optional[Tag] = el
while True:
if target is None:
assert (
child.next_element is None
), "Bad next_element\nNODE: {}\nNEXT {}\nEXPECTED {}".format(
child, child.next_element, None
)
break
elif target.next_sibling is not None:
assert (
child.next_element is target.next_sibling
), "Bad next_element\nNODE: {}\nNEXT {}\nEXPECTED {}".format(
child, child.next_element, target.next_sibling
)
break
target = target.parent
# We are done, so nothing to return
return None
else:
# Return the child to the recursive caller
return child
def assert_selects(self, tags: Iterable[Tag], should_match: Iterable[str]) -> None:
"""Make sure that the given tags have the correct text.
This is used in tests that define a bunch of tags, each
containing a single string, and then select certain strings by
some mechanism.
"""
assert [tag.string for tag in tags] == should_match
def assert_selects_ids(
self, tags: Iterable[Tag], should_match: Iterable[str]
) -> None:
"""Make sure that the given tags have the correct IDs.
This is used in tests that define a bunch of tags, each
containing a single string, and then select certain strings by
some mechanism.
"""
assert [tag["id"] for tag in tags] == should_match
class TreeBuilderSmokeTest(SoupTest):
# Tests that are common to HTML and XML tree builders.
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
"multi_valued_attributes", [None, {}, dict(b=["class"]), {"*": ["notclass"]}]
)
def test_attribute_not_multi_valued(self, multi_valued_attributes):
markup = ''
soup = self.soup(markup, multi_valued_attributes=multi_valued_attributes)
assert soup.a["class"] == "a b c"
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
"multi_valued_attributes", [dict(a=["class"]), {"*": ["class"]}]
)
def test_attribute_multi_valued(self, multi_valued_attributes):
markup = ''
soup = self.soup(markup, multi_valued_attributes=multi_valued_attributes)
assert soup.a["class"] == ["a", "b", "c"]
def test_invalid_doctype(self):
# We don't have an official opinion on how these are parsed,
# but they shouldn't crash any of the parsers.
markup = "content"
self.soup(markup)
markup = ""
self.soup(markup)
def test_doctype_filtered(self):
markup = "\n\n"
soup = self.soup(markup, parse_only=SoupStrainer(name="html"))
assert not any(isinstance(x, Doctype) for x in soup.descendants)
def test_custom_attribute_dict_class(self):
class MyAttributeDict(dict):
def __setitem__(self, key: str, value: Any):
# Ignore the provided value and substitute a
# hard-coded one.
super().__setitem__(key, "OVERRIDDEN")
markup = 'f'
builder = self.default_builder(attribute_dict_class=MyAttributeDict)
soup = self.soup(markup, builder=builder)
tag = soup.a
assert isinstance(tag.attrs, MyAttributeDict)
assert "OVERRIDDEN" == tag["attr1"]
tag["attr3"] = True
assert "OVERRIDDEN" == tag["attr3"]
expect = 'f'
assert expect == tag.decode()
def test_custom_attribute_value_list_class(self):
class MyCustomAttributeValueList(AttributeValueList):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.append("extra")
builder = self.default_builder(
multi_valued_attributes={"*": set(["attr2"])},
attribute_value_list_class=MyCustomAttributeValueList,
)
markup = 'f'
soup = self.soup(markup, builder=builder)
tag = soup.a
assert tag["attr1"] == "val1"
assert tag["attr2"] == ["val2", "extra"]
assert isinstance(tag["attr2"], MyCustomAttributeValueList)
class HTMLTreeBuilderSmokeTest(TreeBuilderSmokeTest):
"""A basic test of a treebuilder's competence.
Any HTML treebuilder, present or future, should be able to pass
these tests. With invalid markup, there's room for interpretation,
and different parsers can handle it differently. But with the
markup in these tests, there's not much room for interpretation.
"""
def test_empty_element_tags(self):
"""Verify that all HTML4 and HTML5 empty element (aka void element) tags
are handled correctly.
"""
for name in [
"area",
"base",
"br",
"col",
"embed",
"hr",
"img",
"input",
"keygen",
"link",
"menuitem",
"meta",
"param",
"source",
"track",
"wbr",
"spacer",
"frame",
]:
soup = self.soup("")
new_tag = soup.new_tag(name)
assert new_tag.is_empty_element is True
self.assert_soup("
", "
")
self.assert_soup("
", "
")
def test_special_string_containers(self):
soup = self.soup("")
assert isinstance(soup.style.string, Stylesheet)
assert isinstance(soup.script.string, Script)
soup = self.soup("")
assert isinstance(soup.style.string, Stylesheet)
# The contents of the style tag resemble an HTML comment, but
# it's not treated as a comment.
assert soup.style.string == ""
assert isinstance(soup.style.string, Stylesheet)
def test_pickle_and_unpickle_identity(self):
# Pickling a tree, then unpickling it, yields a tree identical
# to the original.
tree = self.soup("foo")
dumped = pickle.dumps(tree, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
loaded = pickle.loads(dumped)
assert loaded.__class__ == BeautifulSoup
assert loaded.decode() == tree.decode()
def test_pickle_and_unpickle_bad_markup(self):
markup = """
blabla
"""
soup = self.soup(markup)
pickled = pickle.dumps(soup, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
soup = pickle.loads(pickled)
assert soup.builder.is_xml is False
def assertDoctypeHandled(self, doctype_fragment: str) -> None:
"""Assert that a given doctype string is handled correctly."""
doctype_str, soup = self._document_with_doctype(doctype_fragment)
# Make sure a Doctype object was created.
doctype = soup.contents[0]
assert doctype.__class__ == Doctype
assert doctype == doctype_fragment
assert soup.encode("utf8")[: len(doctype_str)] == doctype_str
# Make sure that the doctype was correctly associated with the
# parse tree and that the rest of the document parsed.
assert soup.p is not None
assert soup.p.contents[0] == "foo"
def _document_with_doctype(
self, doctype_fragment: str, doctype_string: str = "DOCTYPE"
) -> Tuple[bytes, BeautifulSoup]:
"""Generate and parse a document with the given doctype."""
doctype = "" % (doctype_string, doctype_fragment)
markup = doctype + "\n
foo
"
soup = self.soup(markup)
return doctype.encode("utf8"), soup
def test_normal_doctypes(self):
"""Make sure normal, everyday HTML doctypes are handled correctly."""
self.assertDoctypeHandled("html")
self.assertDoctypeHandled(
'html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"'
)
def test_empty_doctype(self):
soup = self.soup("")
doctype = soup.contents[0]
assert "" == doctype.strip()
def test_mixed_case_doctype(self):
# A lowercase or mixed-case doctype becomes a Doctype.
for doctype_fragment in ("doctype", "DocType"):
doctype_str, soup = self._document_with_doctype("html", doctype_fragment)
# Make sure a Doctype object was created and that the DOCTYPE
# is uppercase.
doctype = soup.contents[0]
assert doctype.__class__ == Doctype
assert doctype == "html"
assert soup.encode("utf8")[: len(doctype_str)] == b""
# Make sure that the doctype was correctly associated with the
# parse tree and that the rest of the document parsed.
assert soup.p.contents[0] == "foo"
def test_public_doctype_with_url(self):
doctype = 'html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"'
self.assertDoctypeHandled(doctype)
def test_system_doctype(self):
self.assertDoctypeHandled('foo SYSTEM "http://www.example.com/"')
def test_namespaced_system_doctype(self):
# We can handle a namespaced doctype with a system ID.
self.assertDoctypeHandled('xsl:stylesheet SYSTEM "htmlent.dtd"')
def test_namespaced_public_doctype(self):
# Test a namespaced doctype with a public id.
self.assertDoctypeHandled('xsl:stylesheet PUBLIC "htmlent.dtd"')
def test_real_xhtml_document(self):
"""A real XHTML document should come out more or less the same as it went in."""
markup = b"""
Hello.
Goodbye.
"""
# libxml 2.14.3 turns the XML declaration into a comment, turning the document
# from XHTML to regular HTML. That's fine with this test.
markup_as_html = markup.replace(b'',
b'')
with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
soup = self.soup(markup)
without_minor_differences = soup.encode("utf-8").replace(b"\n", b"")
assert (without_minor_differences == markup.replace(b"\n", b"")
or without_minor_differences == markup_as_html.replace(b"\n", b""))
# No warning was issued about parsing an XML document as HTML,
# because XHTML is both.
assert w == []
def test_namespaced_html(self):
# When a namespaced XML document is parsed as HTML it should
# be treated as HTML with weird tag names.
markup = b"""content"""
with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
soup = self.soup(markup)
assert 2 == len(soup.find_all("ns1:foo"))
# n.b. no "you're parsing XML as HTML" warning was given
# because there was no XML declaration.
assert [] == w
def test_detect_xml_parsed_as_html(self):
# A warning is issued when parsing an XML document as HTML,
# but basic stuff should still work.
markup = b"""string"""
with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
soup = self.soup(markup)
assert soup.tag.string == "string"
[warning] = w
assert isinstance(warning.message, XMLParsedAsHTMLWarning)
assert str(warning.message) == XMLParsedAsHTMLWarning.MESSAGE
# NOTE: the warning is not issued if the document appears to
# be XHTML (tested with test_real_xhtml_document in the
# superclass) or if there is no XML declaration (tested with
# test_namespaced_html in the superclass).
def test_processing_instruction(self):
# We test both Unicode and bytestring to verify that
# process_markup correctly sets processing_instruction_class
# even when the markup is already Unicode and there is no
# need to process anything.
#
# Since HTML doesn't have any processing instructions, it's also
# legal to convert the PI into a comment, as libxml2 2.14.3 does.
markup = """"""
markup_as_comment = ""
soup = self.soup(markup)
assert soup.decode() in [markup, markup_as_comment]
markup = markup.encode("utf8")
markup_as_comment = markup_as_comment.encode("utf8")
soup = self.soup(markup)
assert soup.encode("utf8") in [markup, markup_as_comment]
def test_deepcopy(self):
"""Make sure you can copy the tree builder.
This is important because the builder is part of a
BeautifulSoup object, and we want to be able to copy that.
"""
copy.deepcopy(self.default_builder)
def test_p_tag_is_never_empty_element(self):
"""A
tag is never designated as an empty-element tag.
Even if the markup shows it as an empty-element tag, it
shouldn't be presented that way.
"""
soup = self.soup("
")
assert not soup.p.is_empty_element
assert str(soup.p) == ""
def test_unclosed_tags_get_closed(self):
"""A tag that's not closed by the end of the document should be closed.
This applies to all tags except empty-element tags.
"""
self.assert_soup("
", "
")
self.assert_soup("", "")
self.assert_soup(" ", " ")
def test_br_is_always_empty_element_tag(self):
"""A tag is designated as an empty-element tag.
Some parsers treat as one tag, some parsers as
two tags, but it should always be an empty-element tag.
"""
soup = self.soup(" ")
assert soup.br.is_empty_element
assert str(soup.br) == " "
def test_nested_formatting_elements(self):
self.assert_soup("")
def test_double_head(self):
html = """
Ordinary HEAD element test
Hello, world!
"""
soup = self.soup(html)
assert "text/javascript" == soup.find("script")["type"]
def test_comment(self):
# Comments are represented as Comment objects.
markup = "
foobaz
"
self.assert_soup(markup)
soup = self.soup(markup)
comment = soup.find(string="foobar")
assert comment.__class__ == Comment
# The comment is properly integrated into the tree.
foo = soup.find(string="foo")
assert comment == foo.next_element
baz = soup.find(string="baz")
assert comment == baz.previous_element
def test_preserved_whitespace_in_pre_and_textarea(self):
"""Whitespace must be preserved in