There's still some work to do, and it'll be a while before I get to it, but the work that remains is pretty minor compared to the advantages you get from using BS4 instead of BS3. Try out the beta, and if it gets good reviews I may just make a 4.0 release and deal with the minor things afterwards.
Tue Aug 16 2011 09:21 Beautiful Soup 4 Beta: Now With Python 3 Support:
The main thing holding back Beautiful Soup 4 from release was that it didn't work with Python 3. Fortunately, Thomas Kluyver stepped in and wrote some code, and now I can present the first BS4 beta release.
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