On 4 August 2014 10:29, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
Also, fixing version 3 of beautifulsoup doesn't look very easy. It needs
sgmllib, which is removed from Python 3, and it doesn't feel right to
maintain sgmllib as a Python module for Python 3 (I tried, and with a
few hacks, it works though...).
IIRC, that's why upstream only added Python 3 support in a new major release with a new PyPI package name.
In terms of porting, the main thing to be aware of is that beautifulsoup4 no longer handles parsing HTML itself - now that lxml and html5lib offer decent, tolerant HTML parsers, beautifulsoup is focused on the tree traversal and manipulation APIs. So the APIs should be largely the same, but the parsing may produce slightly different results.
> Is there anyone who wish to package beautifulsoup4