Future of Beautiful Soup

AD

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Aug 22, 2010, 9:16:12 PM8/22/10

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Hi, folks ...

Is Beautiful Soup going to continue being developed? I am curious
about its future.

Thanks, all

A

Leonard Richardson

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Aug 27, 2010, 12:31:03 PM8/27/10

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> Is Beautiful Soup going to continue being developed? I am curious
> about its future.

Beautiful Soup is not being _actively_ developed. There are occasional
bugfix releases, mostly based on code from Aaron de Vore. Since
Beautiful Soup is based on a library that's been removed in Python 3,
it will not, in its current form, survive the adoption of Python 3.

I have a plan to do a new, stripped-down release of Beautiful Soup
that will work with Python 3, but it depends on me putting aside some
work time to do the implementation, and I've been too busy with other
work projects.

Leonard

IamJim

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Sep 10, 2010, 6:59:32 AM9/10/10

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Thank you for this info Leonard,

Jim

AD

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Sep 14, 2010, 9:44:33 PM9/14/10

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Thanks for replying. We do look forward to a version for Python 3 and
thank you for the work you have put into this project, which has
helped so many people.

Best,
A

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