Package buildxml :: Package tools :: Module BeautifulSoup :: Class BeautifulSOAP

Class BeautifulSOAP

This class will push a tag with only a single string child into
the tag's parent as an attribute. The attribute's name is the tag
name, and the value is the string child. An example should give
the flavor of the change:

<foo><bar>baz</bar></foo>
 =>
<foo bar="baz"><bar>baz</bar></foo>

You can then access fooTag['bar'] instead of fooTag.barTag.string.

This is, of course, useful for scraping structures that tend to
use subelements instead of attributes, such as SOAP messages. Note
that it modifies its input, so don't print the modified version
out.

I'm not sure how many people really want to use this class; let me
know if you do. Mainly I like the name.

Instance Methods

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popTag(self)

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Inherited from BeautifulStoneSoup: __getattr__, __init__, convert_charref, endData, handle_charref, handle_comment, handle_data, handle_decl, handle_entityref, handle_pi, isSelfClosingTag, parse_declaration, pushTag, reset, unknown_endtag, unknown_starttag

Inherited from BeautifulStoneSoup (private): _feed, _popToTag, _smartPop, _toStringSubclass

Inherited from Tag: __call__, __contains__, __delitem__, __eq__, __getitem__, __iter__, __len__, __ne__, __nonzero__, __repr__, __setitem__, __str__, __unicode__, childGenerator, clear, decompose, fetch, fetchText, find, findAll, findChild, findChildren, first, firstText, get, getString, getText, has_key, index, prettify, recursiveChildGenerator, renderContents, setString, text

Inherited from Tag (private): _convertEntities, _getAttrMap, _invert, _sub_entity

Inherited from PageElement: append, extract, fetchNextSiblings, fetchParents, fetchPrevious, fetchPreviousSiblings, findAllNext, findAllPrevious, findNext, findNextSibling, findNextSiblings, findParent, findParents, findPrevious, findPreviousSibling, findPreviousSiblings, insert, nextGenerator, nextSiblingGenerator, parentGenerator, previousGenerator, previousSiblingGenerator, replaceWith, replaceWithChildren, setup, substituteEncoding, toEncoding

Inherited from PageElement (private): _findAll, _findOne, _lastRecursiveChild

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __format__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __setattr__, __sizeof__, __subclasshook__

Inherited from sgmllib.SGMLParser: close, convert_codepoint, convert_entityref, error, feed, finish_endtag, finish_shorttag, finish_starttag, get_starttag_text, goahead, handle_endtag, handle_starttag, parse_endtag, parse_pi, parse_starttag, report_unbalanced, setliteral, setnomoretags, unknown_charref, unknown_entityref

Inherited from sgmllib.SGMLParser (private): _convert_ref

Inherited from markupbase.ParserBase: getpos, parse_comment, parse_marked_section, unknown_decl, updatepos

Inherited from markupbase.ParserBase (private): _parse_doctype_attlist, _parse_doctype_element, _parse_doctype_entity, _parse_doctype_notation, _parse_doctype_subset, _scan_name

Class Variables

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Inherited from BeautifulStoneSoup: ALL_ENTITIES, HTML_ENTITIES, MARKUP_MASSAGE, NESTABLE_TAGS, PRESERVE_WHITESPACE_TAGS, QUOTE_TAGS, RESET_NESTING_TAGS, ROOT_TAG_NAME, SELF_CLOSING_TAGS, STRIP_ASCII_SPACES, XHTML_ENTITIES, XML_ENTITIES

Inherited from Tag: BARE_AMPERSAND_OR_BRACKET, XML_ENTITIES_TO_SPECIAL_CHARS, XML_SPECIAL_CHARS_TO_ENTITIES, string

Inherited from sgmllib.SGMLParser: entity_or_charref, entitydefs

Inherited from sgmllib.SGMLParser (private): _decl_otherchars

Properties

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Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details

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popTag(self)

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Overrides: BeautifulStoneSoup.popTag