Python 3.1.1 reporting SyntaxErrors in BeautifulSoup.py 3.1.0.1

[Drew Tronvig]

Hi,

I'm just blundering into BeautifulSoup -- and Python in general -- to
run Tom Dyson's MySpace parser, http://www.throwingbeans.org/MySpace.py.txt,
so please forgive my ignorance.

When MySpace.py imports BeautifulSoup.py 3.1.0.1, Python 3.1.1 is
reporting SyntaxErrors.

First I got:

File "C:\Python31\lib\site-packages\BeautifulSoup.py", line 427
raise AttributeError, "'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" %
(self.__class__.__name__, attr)
[pointing at the comma after AttributeError]
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Putting that string expression inside parens rather than after a comma
seems to make Python happy.

Now I get to:

File "C:\Python31\lib\site-packages\BeautifulSoup.py", line 438
return u'<![CDATA[' + self + u']]>'
[pointing at the single quote after "CDATA[" ]
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I'm way out of my depth on this one, and don't understand how that's
all supposed to parse out, but Python doesn't like it. Any suggestions?

[Aaron DeVore]

Drew,
You're using Python 3.1. Python 3.0 and up introduce some
incompatibilities in the language that break most programs written for
Python 2. That's why you're running into weird syntax errors.
Beautiful Soup can work on Python 3.1, but it requires some special
processing that works best on Unix/Linux. I recommend that you instead
use the latest version in the Python 2 series. As of today, that's
2.6.4.

Cheers!
Aaron DeVore

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