possible bug of replaceWith?

[Yu Lei]

Hi, there,

Consider the following code and output:

soup = BeautifulSoup("<b>Argh!</b>")
soup.find(text='Argh!').replaceWith('Hooray!')
soup.b
# <b>Hooray!</b>
soup.b.string
# u'Argh!'

Text 'Argh!' is replaced with 'Hooray!' successfully, just as 'soup.b'
outputs, but 'soup.b.string' still outputs the old value 'Argh!', is
this a bug or something I was missing?

[Aaron DeVore]

That is indeed a bug in all versions before the just released
Beautiful Soup 3.0.8. Before that, Tag.string wasn't updated when the
tree was manipulated. Beautiful Soup 3.0.8 calculates Tag.string when
it is accessed using a property, so that bug is entirely fixed.

3.0.8 is available on the Beautiful Soup home page, but hasn't yet
been added to any distro packages. There hasn't been a 3.1.x release
based on the 3.0.8 changes, so that bug is still in 3.1.x.

-Aaron DeVore

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[Yu Lei]

Got it.

Thanks!

-- YuLei