Comment 11 for bug 1868861

The `types` parameter to `get_text()` basically almost completely solves my issue. I'd still have some ergonomics quibbling (basically, many contexts where I'm working with a bs4.Soup() object I don't have `bs4` imported, so having to import bs4 and remember the types I care about is annoying. I think this could be handled by having a special case where `types=True` returns all types pretty easily.

My points about the `.strings` accessors was basically a comment that after `get_text()` broke, I went through every other option to access the strings in a tag and none of them were replacements for the old behaviour.

I'd agree that this is basically a documentation issue.

Currently, there's a *bunch* of functionality that's basically undocumented, as optional parameters aren't shown in the documentation and there's no comprehensive API overview that *does* show them. I literally only found out that you can pass `strip=True` to `get_text()` on stack overflow!

I understand the desire to keep the main documentation page (https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/) simple, presumably for newcomers, but *somewhere* should list *all* the parameters each function can possibly take. In the past, I've done this with sphinx via the `sphinx.ext.autodoc` feature, which basically generates class/function listings with their parameters (and pull the documentation out of the docstrings). I see in `doc/source/conf.py` it's enabled, but it's not seeing the python sources.

Looking at sphinx files I put together in the past, there was some horrible hacky

```
import os
import sys
sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('../'))
```

needed in `conf.py` to get sphinx to properly find the module sources. Perhaps that's what's going on here.

Other notes:

 - This was a pretty major breaking change. I kind of assumed that a 4.8.2 -> 4.9.0 revision wouldn't include something like this, but it should instead involve a major version number increment (e.g. semver), though I can understand that the major revision 4 is kind of important (it's `bs4` after all).
 - Please also enable `'sphinx.ext.viewcode',`. Launchpad is crap for browsing code, so including the code in the docs would be nice!