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diff --git a/www/py-beautifulsoup4/DESCR b/www/py-beautifulsoup4/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..998932a10d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/py-beautifulsoup4/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Beautiful Soup is a Python library designed for quick turnaround +projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful: + + * Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms + for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit + for dissecting a document and extracting what you need. It doesn't + take much code to write an application + * Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to + Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8. You don't have to think + about encodings, unless the document doesn't specify an encoding + and Beautiful Soup can't autodetect one. Then you just have to + specify the original encoding. + * Beautiful Soup sits on top of popular Python parsers like lxml + and html5lib, allowing you to try out different parsing strategies + or trade speed for flexibility. + +Beautiful Soup parses anything you give it, and does the tree +traversal stuff for you. You can tell it "Find all the links", or +"Find all the links of class externalLink", or "Find all the links +whose urls match "foo.com", or "Find the table heading that's got +bold text, then give me that text." + +Valuable data that was once locked up in poorly-designed websites +is now within your reach. Projects that would have taken hours take +only minutes with Beautiful Soup. |