Class Hierarchy

• markupbase.ParserBase: Parser base class which provides some common support methods used by the SGML/HTML and XHTML parsers.
• buildxml.tools.BeautifulSoup.SoupStrainer: Encapsulates a number of ways of matching a markup element (tag or text).
• buildxml.tools.BeautifulSoup.UnicodeDammit: A class for detecting the encoding of a *ML document and converting it to a Unicode string.
• object: The most base type
  • exceptions.BaseException: Common base class for all exceptions
    • exceptions.Exception: Common base class for all non-exit exceptions.
      • buildxml.tools.BeautifulSoup.StopParsing
  • buildxml.tools.BeautifulSoup.PageElement: Contains the navigational information for some part of the page (either a tag or a piece of text)
  • basestring: Type basestring cannot be instantiated; it is the base for str and unicode.
    • unicode: unicode(string [, encoding[, errors]]) -> object
  • list: list() -> new empty list list(iterable) -> new list initialized from iterable's items