None on Linux but found on Windows

[Nicolas]

Hi

I use beautifulsoup4==4.3.2 on Windows Seven and on Linux.
On Windows I have Python 2.7.8 and on Linux I have 2.7.6. I spent 30 minutes, trying to install python 2.7.8 or latest version of Python on Ubuntu but I couldn't...

My script parses a html page. The element is found on Windows, but isn't found on Linux (return None). This bug is quite rare. The script works with lots of pages but with about 5% of the pages..it doesn't work.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
f = open('page.html','r')
html = f.read()
f.close()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
print soup.find('div', id='BidsHistory1')

The html :
...
...
 <a name="QuestionsAndAnswers1"></a>
</ul>
            </div>
            <div class="AI_slide" id="it_ctrl_Bids">
                <div id="BidsHistory1" class="it_bidsControl">
 <table class="it_offer_table">
...
...

Thank you

[Leonard Richardson (leonardr)]

"If your script works on one computer but not another, it’s probably because the two computers have different parser libraries available. For example, you may have developed the script on a computer that has lxml installed, and then tried to run it on a computer that only has html5lib installed."

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#other-parser-problems

If this does not describe your problem, please reopen this bug and mention which parser you are using to parse the page.