Tag.interesting_string_types property is not being propagated when a tag is copied
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Soup |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Requirements
- Python 3.9
- beautifulsoup4 == "4.11.1"
- lxml == "4.9.1"
This should be a self-contained test that fails.
```python
import copy
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
offending_html = """
<html>
<body>
<div class="animals">
<!-- These are animals -->
<p class="a">Cat</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
"""
original_soup = BeautifulSoup(
dom = copy.copy(
assert "".join(
```
The advised way of copying a tag is copy.copy (as in https:/
replacing copy.copy by copy.deepcopy solves the problem, but deepcopy comes with its own issues.
is this a bug or is it intended ?
| description: | updated |
| summary: |
- stripped_strings if the copy of a tag is not identical to the original + stripped_strings of the copy of a tag is not identical to the original |
| description: | updated |
| Leonard Richardson (leonardr) wrote Re: stripped_strings of the copy of a tag is not identical to the original | #1 |
| Changed in beautifulsoup: | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Leonard Richardson (leonardr) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in beautifulsoup: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| summary: |
- stripped_strings of the copy of a tag is not identical to the original + Tag.interesting_string_types property is not being propagated when a tag + is copied |
Thanks for filing this issue. The problem is fixed in revision 12ad184.
The issue is with the Tag.interesting