BeautifulSoup.ICantBelieveItsBeautifulSoup Class Reference

Inheritance diagram for BeautifulSoup.ICantBelieveItsBeautifulSoup:

Static Public Attributes
list	I_CANT_BELIEVE_THEYRE_NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['noscript']
	I_CANT_BELIEVE_THEYRE_NESTABLE_INLINE_TAGS = \
tuple	NESTABLE_TAGS
Static Public Attributes inherited from BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup
tuple	CHARSET_RE = re.compile("((^|;)\s*charset=)([^;]*)", re.M)
list	NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['blockquote', 'div', 'fieldset', 'ins', 'del']
list	NESTABLE_INLINE_TAGS
dictionary	NESTABLE_LIST_TAGS
dictionary	NESTABLE_TABLE_TAGS
tuple	NESTABLE_TAGS
list	NON_NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['address', 'form', 'p', 'pre']
tuple	PRESERVE_WHITESPACE_TAGS = set(['pre', 'textarea'])
dictionary	QUOTE_TAGS = {'script' : None, 'textarea' : None}
tuple	RESET_NESTING_TAGS
tuple	SELF_CLOSING_TAGS
Static Public Attributes inherited from BeautifulSoup.BeautifulStoneSoup
	ALL_ENTITIES = XHTML_ENTITIES
string	HTML_ENTITIES = "html"
list	MARKUP_MASSAGE
dictionary	NESTABLE_TAGS = {}
list	PRESERVE_WHITESPACE_TAGS = []
dictionary	QUOTE_TAGS = {}
dictionary	RESET_NESTING_TAGS = {}
string	ROOT_TAG_NAME = u'[document]'
dictionary	SELF_CLOSING_TAGS = {}
dictionary	STRIP_ASCII_SPACES = { 9: None, 10: None, 12: None, 13: None, 32: None, }
string	XHTML_ENTITIES = "xhtml"
string	XML_ENTITIES = "xml"
Static Public Attributes inherited from BeautifulSoup.PageElement
	fetchNextSiblings = findNextSiblings
	fetchParents = findParents
	fetchPrevious = findAllPrevious
	fetchPreviousSiblings = findPreviousSiblings

Additional Inherited Members
Public Member Functions inherited from BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup
def	__init__
def	__init__
def	extractCharsetFromMeta
def	extractCharsetFromMeta
Public Member Functions inherited from BeautifulSoup.BeautifulStoneSoup
def	__init__
def	__init__
def	endData
def	endData
def	extractCharsetFromMeta
def	extractCharsetFromMeta
def	handle_data
def	handle_data
def	isSelfClosingTag
def	isSelfClosingTag
def	popTag
def	popTag
def	pushTag
def	pushTag
def	reset
def	reset
def	unknown_endtag
def	unknown_endtag
def	unknown_starttag
def	unknown_starttag
Public Member Functions inherited from BeautifulSoup.PageElement
def	append
def	append
def	extract
def	extract
def	findAllNext
def	findAllNext
def	findAllPrevious
def	findAllPrevious
def	findNext
def	findNext
def	findNextSibling
def	findNextSibling
def	findNextSiblings
def	findNextSiblings
def	findParent
def	findParent
def	findParents
def	findParents
def	findPrevious
def	findPrevious
def	findPreviousSibling
def	findPreviousSibling
def	findPreviousSiblings
def	findPreviousSiblings
def	insert
def	insert
def	nextGenerator
def	nextGenerator
def	nextSiblingGenerator
def	nextSiblingGenerator
def	parentGenerator
def	parentGenerator
def	previousGenerator
def	previousGenerator
def	previousSiblingGenerator
def	previousSiblingGenerator
def	replaceWith
def	replaceWith
def	setup
def	setup
def	substituteEncoding
def	substituteEncoding
def	toEncoding
def	toEncoding
Public Attributes inherited from BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup
	declaredHTMLEncoding
	originalEncoding
Public Attributes inherited from BeautifulSoup.BeautifulStoneSoup
	builder
	convertEntities
	convertHTMLEntities
	convertXMLEntities
	currentData
	currentTag
	declaredHTMLEncoding
	escapeUnrecognizedEntities
	fromEncoding
	hidden
	instanceSelfClosingTags
	literal
	markup
	markupMassage
	originalEncoding
	parseOnlyThese
	previous
	quoteStack
	smartQuotesTo
	tagStack
Public Attributes inherited from BeautifulSoup.PageElement
	next
	nextSibling
	parent
	previous
	previousSibling

Detailed Description

The BeautifulSoup class is oriented towards skipping over
common HTML errors like unclosed tags. However, sometimes it makes
errors of its own. For instance, consider this fragment:

 <b>Foo<b>Bar</b></b>

This is perfectly valid (if bizarre) HTML. However, the
BeautifulSoup class will implicitly close the first b tag when it
encounters the second 'b'. It will think the author wrote
"<b>Foo<b>Bar", and didn't close the first 'b' tag, because
there's no real-world reason to bold something that's already
bold. When it encounters '</b></b>' it will close two more 'b'
tags, for a grand total of three tags closed instead of two. This
can throw off the rest of your document structure. The same is
true of a number of other tags, listed below.

It's much more common for someone to forget to close a 'b' tag
than to actually use nested 'b' tags, and the BeautifulSoup class
handles the common case. This class handles the not-co-common
case: where you can't believe someone wrote what they did, but
it's valid HTML and BeautifulSoup screwed up by assuming it
wouldn't be.

Definition at line 1604 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

Member Data Documentation

list BeautifulSoup.ICantBelieveItsBeautifulSoup.I_CANT_BELIEVE_THEYRE_NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['noscript']

static

Definition at line 1634 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

BeautifulSoup.ICantBelieveItsBeautifulSoup.I_CANT_BELIEVE_THEYRE_NESTABLE_INLINE_TAGS = \

static

Definition at line 1629 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

tuple BeautifulSoup.ICantBelieveItsBeautifulSoup.NESTABLE_TAGS

static

Initial value:

= buildTagMap([], BeautifulSoup.NESTABLE_TAGS,
                                I_CANT_BELIEVE_THEYRE_NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS,
                                I_CANT_BELIEVE_THEYRE_NESTABLE_INLINE_TAGS)

Definition at line 1636 of file BeautifulSoup.py.