The `BeautifulSoup.__init__` method is a constructor method for the BeautifulSoup class in the bs4 (BeautifulSoup) library for Python. It initializes a new BeautifulSoup object by accepting a markup and an optional parsing library as parameters. The markup parameter can be either a string or an object that can be converted to a string, representing the markup to be parsed. The parsing library, if provided, can be any of the supported parsers, such as 'html.parser' or 'lxml'. If no parser is specified, BeautifulSoup will automatically select a parser based on the available options. The initialization process involves parsing the markup and building a parse tree that can be navigated and searched using various methods provided by the BeautifulSoup class.
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