Why is it called "BeautifulSoup"?

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Matthew Kleinsmith

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Sep 25, 2015, 6:56:01 AM9/25/15
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Why is it called "BeautifulSoup"?

leonardr

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Sep 29, 2015, 9:48:00 PM9/29/15
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Matthew,

Back in 2004 most parsers could only parse well-formed XML and HTML. The poorly-formed stuff you saw on the Web was referred to as "tag soup", and only a web browser could parse it. Beautiful Soup started out as an HTML parser that would take tag soup and make it beautiful, or at least workable.

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