Class BeautifulSoup

The Soup object is initialized as the 'root tag', and the
provided markup (which can be a string or a file-like object)
is fed into the underlying parser.

HTMLParser will process most bad HTML, and the BeautifulSoup
class has some tricks for dealing with some HTML that kills
HTMLParser, but Beautiful Soup can nonetheless choke or lose data
if your data uses self-closing tags or declarations
incorrectly.

By default, Beautiful Soup uses regexes to sanitize input,
avoiding the vast majority of these problems. If the problems
don't apply to you, pass in False for markupMassage, and
you'll get better performance.

The default parser massage techniques fix the two most common
instances of invalid HTML that choke HTMLParser:

 <br/> (No space between name of closing tag and tag close)
 <! --Comment--> (Extraneous whitespace in declaration)

You can pass in a custom list of (RE object, replace method)
tuples to get Beautiful Soup to scrub your input the way you
want.

Overrides: Tag.__init__

(inherited documentation)

Beautiful Soup can detect a charset included in a META tag, try to convert the document to that charset, and re-parse the document from the beginning.

Overrides: BeautifulStoneSoup.extractCharsetFromMeta

SELF_CLOSING_TAGS

Value:

{'base': None, 'br': None, 'frame': None, 'hr': None, 'img': None, 'input': None, 'link': None, 'meta': None, ...

NESTABLE_INLINE_TAGS

Value:

['span', 'font', 'q', 'object', 'bdo', 'sub', 'sup', 'center']

NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS

Value:

['blockquote', 'div', 'fieldset', 'ins', 'del']

NESTABLE_LIST_TAGS

Value:

{'dd': ['dl'], 'dl': [], 'dt': ['dl'], 'li': ['ul', 'ol'], 'ol': [], 'ul': []}

NESTABLE_TABLE_TAGS

Value:

{'table': [], 'tbody': ['table'], 'td': ['tr'], 'tfoot': ['table'], 'th': ['tr'], 'thead': ['table'], 'tr': ['table', 'tbody', 'tfoot', 'thead']}

RESET_NESTING_TAGS

Value:

{'address': None, 'blockquote': None, 'dd': ['dl'], 'del': None, 'div': None, 'dl': [], 'dt': ['dl'], 'fieldset': None, ...

NESTABLE_TAGS

Value:

{'bdo': [], 'blockquote': [], 'center': [], 'dd': ['dl'], 'del': [], 'div': [], 'dl': [], 'dt': ['dl'], ...