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author | Leonard Richardson <leonard.richardson@canonical.com> | 2009-03-13 18:09:23 -0400 |
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committer | Leonard Richardson <leonard.richardson@canonical.com> | 2009-03-13 18:09:23 -0400 |
commit | cafaed172c6fd8b0668f1365bbb97331ca4fa1dc (patch) | |
tree | 35effc997e715cbb2c6577232e60c01e634dc77c /CHANGELOG | |
download | beautifulsoup4-cafaed172c6fd8b0668f1365bbb97331ca4fa1dc.tar.gz |
Initial (manual) import.
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e97e1b --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@ += 3.1.0 = + +A hybrid version that supports 2.4 and can be automatically converted +to run under Python 3.0. There are three backwards-incompatible +changes you should be aware of, but no new features or deliberate +behavior changes. + +1. str() may no longer do what you want. This is because the meaning +of str() inverts between Python 2 and 3; in Python 2 it gives you a +byte string, in Python 3 it gives you a Unicode string. + +The effect of this is that you can't pass an encoding to .__str__ +anymore. Use encode() to get a string and decode() to get Unicode, and +you'll be ready (well, readier) for Python 3. + +2. Beautiful Soup is now based on HTMLParser rather than SGMLParser, +which is gone in Python 3. There's some bad HTML that SGMLParser +handled but HTMLParser doesn't, usually to do with attribute values +that aren't closed or have brackets inside them: + + <a href="foo</a>, </a><a href="bar">baz</a> + <a b="<a>">', '<a b="<a>"></a><a>"></a> + +A later version of Beautiful Soup will allow you to plug in different +parsers to make tradeoffs between speed and the ability to handle bad +HTML. + +3. In Python 3 (but not Python 2),HTMLParser converts entities within +attributes to the corresponding Unicode characters. In Python 2 it's +possible to parse this string and leave the é intact. + + <a href="http://crummy.com?sacré&bleu"> + +In Python 3, the é is always converted to \xe9 during +parsing. + + += 3.0.7a = + +Added an import that makes BS work in Python 2.3. + + += 3.0.7 = + +Fixed a UnicodeDecodeError when unpickling documents that contain +non-ASCII characters. + +Fixed a TypeError that occured in some circumstances when a tag +contained no text. + +Jump through hoops to avoid the use of chardet, which can be extremely +slow in some circumstances. UTF-8 documents should never trigger the +use of chardet. + +Whitespace is preserved inside <pre> and <textarea> tags that contain +nothing but whitespace. + +Beautiful Soup can now parse a doctype that's scoped to an XML namespace. + + += 3.0.6 = + +Got rid of a very old debug line that prevented chardet from working. + +Added a Tag.decompose() method that completely disconnects a tree or a +subset of a tree, breaking it up into bite-sized pieces that are +easy for the garbage collecter to collect. + +Tag.extract() now returns the tag that was extracted. + +Tag.findNext() now does something with the keyword arguments you pass +it instead of dropping them on the floor. + +Fixed a Unicode conversion bug. + +Fixed a bug that garbled some <meta> tags when rewriting them. + + += 3.0.5 = + +Soup objects can now be pickled, and copied with copy.deepcopy. + +Tag.append now works properly on existing BS objects. (It wasn't +originally intended for outside use, but it can be now.) (Giles +Radford) + +Passing in a nonexistent encoding will no longer crash the parser on +Python 2.4 (John Nagle). + +Fixed an underlying bug in SGMLParser that thinks ASCII has 255 +characters instead of 127 (John Nagle). + +Entities are converted more consistently to Unicode characters. + +Entity references in attribute values are now converted to Unicode +characters when appropriate. Numeric entities are always converted, +because SGMLParser always converts them outside of attribute values. + +ALL_ENTITIES happens to just be the XHTML entities, so I renamed it to +XHTML_ENTITIES. + +The regular expression for bare ampersands was too loose. In some +cases ampersands were not being escaped. (Sam Ruby?) + +Non-breaking spaces and other special Unicode space characters are no +longer folded to ASCII spaces. (Robert Leftwich) + +Information inside a TEXTAREA tag is now parsed literally, not as HTML +tags. TEXTAREA now works exactly the same way as SCRIPT. (Zephyr Fang) + + += 3.0.4 = + +Fixed a bug that crashed Unicode conversion in some cases. + +Fixed a bug that prevented UnicodeDammit from being used as a +general-purpose data scrubber. + +Fixed some unit test failures when running against Python 2.5. + +When considering whether to convert smart quotes, UnicodeDammit now +looks at the original encoding in a case-insensitive way. |