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author | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2014-12-07 10:03:28 -0500 |
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committer | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2014-12-07 10:03:28 -0500 |
commit | 13bad02cc93d14918c691bc6467d4289fb5ff49a (patch) | |
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download | beautifulsoup4-13bad02cc93d14918c691bc6467d4289fb5ff49a.tar.gz |
Mentioned virtual environments as a possible source for the different-parsers problem.
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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 0d91c1c..775c3e1 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -2762,13 +2762,15 @@ You'll need to :ref:`have lxml installed <parser-installation>`. Other parser problems --------------------- -* If your script works on one computer but not another, it's probably - because the two computers have different parser libraries - available. For example, you may have developed the script on a - computer that has lxml installed, and then tried to run it on a - computer that only has html5lib installed. See `Differences between - parsers`_ for why this matters, and fix the problem by mentioning a - specific parser library in the ``BeautifulSoup`` constructor. +* If your script works on one computer but not another, or in one + virtual environment but not another, or outside the virtual + environment but not inside, it's probably because the two + environments have different parser libraries available. For example, + you may have developed the script on a computer that has lxml + installed, and then tried to run it on a computer that only has + html5lib installed. See `Differences between parsers`_ for why this + matters, and fix the problem by mentioning a specific parser library + in the ``BeautifulSoup`` constructor. * Because `HTML tags and attributes are case-insensitive <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#syntax>`_, all three HTML |