Package lxml :: Package html :: Module soupparser

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# Module soupparser

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External interface to the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.

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| _PseudoTag

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fromstring(data, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None, **bsargs) Parse a string of HTML data into an Element tree using the BeautifulSoup parser. | source code

parse(file, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None, **bsargs) Parse a file into an ElemenTree using the BeautifulSoup parser. | source code

convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement=None) Convert a BeautifulSoup tree to a list of Element trees. | source code

_parse(source, beautifulsoup, makeelement, **bsargs) | source code

_parse_doctype_declaration(...) match(string[, pos[, endpos]]) --> match object or None. Matches zero or more characters at the beginning of the string | source code

_convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement) | source code

_init_node_converters(makeelement) | source code

handle_entities(...) sub(repl, string[, count = 0]) --> newstring Return the string obtained by replacing the leftmost non-overlapping occurrences of pattern in string by the replacement repl. | source code

character

unichr(i) Return a string of one character with ordinal i; 0 <= i < 256. |

unescape(string) | source code

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| _DECLARATION_OR_DOCTYPE = ``(`<class 'bs4.element.Declaration'>`,` `...``
| __package__ = ``'``lxml.html``'``

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### fromstring(data, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None, **bsargs)

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Parse a string of HTML data into an Element tree using the BeautifulSoup parser.

Returns the root `<html>` Element of the tree.

You can pass a different BeautifulSoup parser through the `beautifulsoup` keyword, and a diffent Element factory function through the `makeelement` keyword. By default, the standard `BeautifulSoup` class and the default factory of lxml.html are used.

### parse(file, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None, **bsargs)

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Parse a file into an ElemenTree using the BeautifulSoup parser.

You can pass a different BeautifulSoup parser through the `beautifulsoup` keyword, and a diffent Element factory function through the `makeelement` keyword. By default, the standard `BeautifulSoup` class and the default factory of lxml.html are used.

### convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement=None)

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Convert a BeautifulSoup tree to a list of Element trees.

Returns a list instead of a single root Element to support HTML-like soup with more than one root element.

You can pass a different Element factory through the `makeelement` keyword.

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### _DECLARATION_OR_DOCTYPE

Value:

      (<class 'bs4.element.Declaration'>, <class 'bs4.element.Doctype'>)