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beautifulsoup4 package

Strange behaviour in python-bs4

Bug #973129 reported by Michael Pitra
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Bug Description

After upgrading from 4.0.1-1 to 4.0.2-1, my python script broke with the following behaviour:

original text (for harvesting):

[...]
<body nof="(MB=(DefaultMasterborder, 65, 60, 150, 10), L=(HomeLayout, 700, 600))" bgcolor="#EAF7F7" text="#000000" link="#0033CC" vlink="#990099" alink="#FF0000" topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>^M
<form method="post" action="">^M <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="770" nof="ly">^M
[...]

souped text (printed with prettify()):

[...]
 <body alink="#FF0000" bgcolor="#EAF7F7" leftmargin="0" link="#0033CC" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" nof="(MB=(DefaultMasterborder, 65, 60, 150, 10), L=(HomeLayout, 700, 600))" text="#000000" topmargin="0" vlink="#990099"> <form action="" method="post">
   <table cellpa="" cellspacing="0">
    d d i n g = " 0 " w i d t h = " 7 7 0 " n o f = " l y " &gt; ^M
[...]

This seems to happen after the change to StringIO in beautifulsoup4 (when using lxml parser) with a fixed chunk size. So I'm rather convinced this seems to be a bug in bs4 itself. Maybe someone can file this to the upstream team?

Revision history for this message
Michael Pitra (mortomanos) wrote :

This is related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/+bug/972466, so it can be marked as duplicate.

Changed in beautifulsoup4 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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