News You Can Bruise for 2005 April 10 (entry 0)

(5) Sun Apr 10 2005 14:50 PST Beautiful Soup 2.0: After much last-minute tweaking of Python and CSS, Beautiful Soup 2.0 is released! I really outdid myself this time. Still in one file, much better at parsing bad HTML, has pretty-printer, lots of idiomatic shortcuts for writing more concise code, lots of documentation. And, in contradiction of Leonard's Immutable Law of Open Source Software, it's not plugin-based. Go for it. No Python 1.5 support in this one, unfortunately.

Comments:

Posted by Frances at Sun Apr 10 2005 20:08

Who for such danties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, Beautiful Soup.

Posted by Rachel at Sun Apr 10 2005 21:42

what happened to all the weblogs?

Posted by Leonard at Mon Apr 11 2005 01:25

I fixed it.

Posted by Salim Fadhley at Mon Apr 11 2005 09:04

Lovely, now how about using distutils? That way people do not need to incorporate your code into their scripts.

If you use distutils then there could be a single instance of BeautifulSoup per computer, lovingly installed in Python's site-packages folder.

I WANT MY SOUP!

:-)

Posted by Richard at Mon Apr 11 2005 17:57

... a pypi entry would be nice too (and a setup.py gives you that too)