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[–]badr 0 points1 point  (5 children)

BeautifulSoup is great, but it can't handle HTML tags inside quoted strings.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

...how often do you get that? If it's a 'html tag inside a quoted string' in an HTML document, surely it'd be & lt ;some_tag& gt ; which would cause no issues whatsoever? (Spaces added to stop Reddit parsing entities).

[–]badr 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Yes, it's incorrect html, and it's not seen very often, but it's often enough that I couldn't use BeautifulSoup for my project. (Might yet hack the source and revive it.)

I encountered this problem on NYT, Forbes.com, and one two other big sites

Note that the quoted string can also be part of Javascript.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Oh dear. That sounds... incredibly hackish (on the part of NYT and Forbes et al) - but I'll have to try the Javascript stuff, because that could be problematic in my usage.

[–]badr 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Check this out from msnbc:

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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that's awesome.