print "You need to use some other library to get the document behind the URL, and feed that document to Beautiful Soup."
return
print
for parser in basic_parsers:
print "Trying to parse your markup with %s" % parser
success = False
try:
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, parser)
success = True
except Exception, e:
print "%s could not parse the markup." % parser
traceback.print_exc()
if success:
print "Here's what %s did with the markup:" % parser
print soup.prettify()
print "-" * 80
def lxml_trace(data, html=True, **kwargs):
"""Print out the lxml events that occur during parsing.
This lets you see how lxml parses a document when no Beautiful
Soup code is running.
"""
from lxml import etree
for event, element in etree.iterparse(StringIO(data), html=html, **kwargs):
print("%s, %4s, %s" % (event, element.tag, element.text))
print "You need to use some other library to get the document behind the URL, and feed that document to Beautiful Soup."
return
print
for parser in basic_parsers:
print "Trying to parse your markup with %s" % parser
success = False
try:
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, parser)
success = True
except Exception, e:
print "%s could not parse the markup." % parser
traceback.print_exc()
if success:
print "Here's what %s did with the markup:" % parser
print soup.prettify()
print "-" * 80
def lxml_trace(data, html=True, **kwargs):
"""Print out the lxml events that occur during parsing.
This lets you see how lxml parses a document when no Beautiful
Soup code is running.
"""
from lxml import etree
for event, element in etree.iterparse(StringIO(data), html=html, **kwargs):
print("%s, %4s, %s" % (event, element.tag, element.text))
class AnnouncingParser(HTMLParser):
"""Announces HTMLParser parse events, without doing anything else."""
def diagnose(data):
"""Diagnostic suite for isolating common problems.
:param data: A string containing markup that needs to be explained.
:return: None; diagnostics are printed to standard output.
"""
print(("Diagnostic running on Beautiful Soup %s" % __version__))
print(("Python version %s" % sys.version))
basic_parsers = ["html.parser", "html5lib", "lxml"]
for name in basic_parsers:
for builder in builder_registry.builders:
if name in builder.features:
break
else:
basic_parsers.remove(name)
print((
"I noticed that %s is not installed. Installing it may help." %
name))
if 'lxml' in basic_parsers:
basic_parsers.append("lxml-xml")
try:
from lxml import etree
print(("Found lxml version %s" %
".".join(map(str, etree.LXML_VERSION))))
except ImportError as e:
print("lxml is not installed or couldn't be imported.")
if 'html5lib' in basic_parsers:
try:
import html5lib
print(("Found html5lib version %s" % html5lib.__version__))
except ImportError as e:
print("html5lib is not installed or couldn't be imported.")
if hasattr(data, 'read'):
data = data.read()
elif data.startswith("http:") or data.startswith("https:"):
print(('"%s" looks like a URL. Beautiful Soup is not an HTTP client.' %
data))
print(
"You need to use some other library to get the document behind the URL, and feed that document to Beautiful Soup."
)
return
else:
try:
if os.path.exists(data):
print((
'"%s" looks like a filename. Reading data from the file.' %
data))
with open(data) as fp:
data = fp.read()
except ValueError:
# This can happen on some platforms when the 'filename' is
# too long. Assume it's data and not a filename.
pass
print("")
for parser in basic_parsers:
print(("Trying to parse your markup with %s" % parser))
success = False
try:
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, features=parser)
success = True
except Exception as e:
print(("%s could not parse the markup." % parser))
traceback.print_exc()
if success:
print(("Here's what %s did with the markup:" % parser))
print((soup.prettify()))
print(("-" * 80))
