Leonard Richardson personal blog
Did You Know: BeautifulSoup's bits are rotting
The parser in version 3.1.0 of Beautiful Soup did significantly worse on real-world HTML than version 3.0.8 did. The most common problems were the incorrect handling of <script> tags, "malformed start tag" errors, and "bad end tag" errors.
- Points
- 72
- HN comments
- 37
- Submissions
- 1
- Cited by
- 3 commenters
Software EngineeringWeb & Frontend2009
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2009 | Did You Know: BeautifulSoup's bits are rotting by andrewljohnson | 72 | 37 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 3 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Nov 2009 to Jun 2011.
Most recent:
- cdr · Jun 28, 2011
- jmillikin · Nov 20, 2009
- jim_lawless · Nov 9, 2009
