Cannot easily create soup.new_tag('meta', name="anything"...)

[griswolf]

BeautifulSoup already uses the "name" parameter to create the new tag. For searching, we can use the idiom find_all('meta',"attrs={"name":"something", ...}) but using that idiom with new_tag dosn't do what is needed. Allowing the attrs={...} hack would be an advantage. Alternative: a factory "new_meta_tag" method, since many meta tags need the "name" attribute. Or expanding the use of the 'class_' hack to new_tag, but generalizing it.

Work around:
m = soup.new_tag('meta',content='some-content')
m['name'] = 'some-name'

[Leonard Richardson (leonardr)]

Revision 464 allows a dictionary of 'attrs' to be passed into BeautifulSoup.new_tag.

[griswolf (griswolf)]

Thank you. However, alas:

% pip install -U beautifulsoup # also happens with pip3
Collecting beautifulsoup
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/1e/ee/295988deca1a5a7accd783d0dfe14524867e31abb05b6c0eeceee49c759d/BeautifulSoup-3.2.1.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/var/folders/r8/x2801mmx14l0mcnfxkk299zh0000gn/T/pip-install-g7qjdnv_/beautifulsoup/setup.py", line 22
        print "Unit tests have failed!"
                                      ^
    SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("Unit tests have failed!")?

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/r8/x2801mmx14l0mcnfxkk299zh0000gn/T/pip-install-g7qjdnv_/beautifulsoup/
%

[Leonard Richardson (leonardr)]

You're installing version 3 of Beautiful Soup, an obsolete version which doesn't work in Python 3. The package name you want is beautifulsoup4.

[griswolf (griswolf)]

(blush)

thanks

On 2018-07-28 18:37, Leonard Richardson wrote:
> You're installing version 3 of Beautiful Soup, an obsolete version which
> doesn't work in Python 3. The package name you want is beautifulsoup4.
>