Message31175
I'm running a website page through BeautifulSoup. It parses OK with Python 2.4, but Python 2.5 fails with an exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./sitetruth/InfoSitePage.py", line 268, in httpfetch
self.pagetree = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(sitetext) # parse into tree form
File "./sitetruth/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1326, in __init__
BeautifulStoneSoup.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "./sitetruth/BeautifulSoup.py", line 973, in __init__
self._feed()
File "./sitetruth/BeautifulSoup.py", line 998, in _feed
SGMLParser.feed(self, markup or "")
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 99, in feed
self.goahead(0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 133, in goahead
k = self.parse_starttag(i)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 291, in parse_starttag
self.finish_starttag(tag, attrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 340, in finish_starttag
self.handle_starttag(tag, method, attrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 376, in handle_starttag
method(attrs)
File "./sitetruth/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1416, in start_meta
self._feed(self.declaredHTMLEncoding)
File "./sitetruth/BeautifulSoup.py", line 998, in _feed
SGMLParser.feed(self, markup or "")
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 99, in feed
self.goahead(0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 133, in goahead
k = self.parse_starttag(i)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 285, in parse_starttag
self._convert_ref, attrvalue)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa7 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
The code that's failing is in "_convert_ref", which is new in Python 2.5. That function wasn't present in 2.4. I think the code is trying to handle single quotes inside of double quotes in HTML attributes, or something like that.
To replicate, run
http://www.bankofamerica.com
or
http://www.gm.com
through BeautifulSoup.
Something about this code doesn't like big companies. Web sites of smaller companies are going through OK. |
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2007-08-23 14:51:43 | admin | link | issue1651995 messages |
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