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author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2022-03-13 15:19:28 -0400 |
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committer | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2022-03-13 15:19:28 -0400 |
commit | eb28b6c35bc372ba3794c17e6bf4258aa960993b (patch) | |
tree | e772db66eaeaf22cd9b621835f3106c3cc00b3b6 | |
parent | 2a32a4141e35e80cbe086a2923569043894a9319 (diff) |
libraries/BeautifulSoup: Wrap README at 72 columns.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/libraries/BeautifulSoup/README b/libraries/BeautifulSoup/README index 08cac5c3667e..37ebf918ff77 100644 --- a/libraries/BeautifulSoup/README +++ b/libraries/BeautifulSoup/README @@ -1,27 +1,29 @@ -Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround -projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful: +Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick +turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it +powerful: 1. Beautiful Soup won't choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original document. This is usually good enough to collect the data you need and run away. - 2. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for - navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for - dissecting a document and extracting what you need. You don't have to - create a custom parser for each application. + 2. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms + for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit + for dissecting a document and extracting what you need. You don't + have to create a custom parser for each application. - 3. Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and - outgoing documents to UTF-8. You don't have to think about encodings, - unless the document doesn't specify an encoding and Beautiful Soup - can't autodetect one. Then you just have to specify the original - encoding. + 3. Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode + and outgoing documents to UTF-8. You don't have to think about + encodings, unless the document doesn't specify an encoding and + Beautiful Soup can't autodetect one. Then you just have to + specify the original encoding. -Beautiful Soup parses anything you give it, and does the tree traversal -stuff for you. You can tell it "Find all the links", or "Find all the links -of class externalLink", or "Find all the links whose urls match "foo.com", -or "Find the table heading that's got bold text, then give me that text." +Beautiful Soup parses anything you give it, and does the tree +traversal stuff for you. You can tell it "Find all the links", or +"Find all the links of class externalLink", or "Find all the links +whose urls match "foo.com", or "Find the table heading that's got bold +text, then give me that text." -Valuable data that was once locked up in poorly-designed websites is now -within your reach. Projects that would have taken hours take only minutes -with Beautiful Soup. +Valuable data that was once locked up in poorly-designed websites is +now within your reach. Projects that would have taken hours take only +minutes with Beautiful Soup. |