SoupStrainer includes DOCTYPE?!?
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Marco Heins
Mar 21, 2016, 9:48:54 AM3/21/16
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Hi all,
I used SoupStrainer to limit the search to p-tags in an arbitrary html file. I was surprised to see it included the DOCTYPE as the first element. This behavior seems confusing to me cause I thought to deal with only p-tags in soup.contents, e. g. the DOCTYPE object has no text attribute leading to an error when trying to iterate over it. Not sure wether this is intentional or considered to be a bug?
regards Marco
I used SoupStrainer to limit the search to p-tags in an arbitrary html file. I was surprised to see it included the DOCTYPE as the first element. This behavior seems confusing to me cause I thought to deal with only p-tags in soup.contents, e. g. the DOCTYPE object has no text attribute leading to an error when trying to iterate over it. Not sure wether this is intentional or considered to be a bug?
regards Marco
Elizabeth Frazier
Mar 28, 2016, 7:36:12 AM3/28/16
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Can you paste the code you are using to define the SoupStrainer as well as the code you are using for the BeautifulSoup constructor where you first make the soup? Also what are the results of the diagnose() function?
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