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# lxml.html.soupparser module

External interface to the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.

class lxml.html.soupparser._PseudoTag(contents)

  Bases: `object`

lxml.html.soupparser._convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement)

lxml.html.soupparser._init_node_converters(makeelement)

lxml.html.soupparser._parse(source, beautifulsoup, makeelement, **bsargs)

lxml.html.soupparser._parse_doctype_declaration(string, pos=0, endpos=9223372036854775807)

  Matches zero or more characters at the beginning of the string.

lxml.html.soupparser.convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement=None)

  Convert a BeautifulSoup tree to a list of Element trees.

  Returns a list instead of a single root Element to support HTML-like soup with more than one root element.

  You can pass a different Element factory through the makeelement keyword.

lxml.html.soupparser.fromstring(data, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None, **bsargs)

  Parse a string of HTML data into an Element tree using the BeautifulSoup parser.

  Returns the root `<html>` Element of the tree.

  You can pass a different BeautifulSoup parser through the beautifulsoup keyword, and a diffent Element factory function through the makeelement keyword. By default, the standard `BeautifulSoup` class and the default factory of lxml.html are used.

lxml.html.soupparser.handle_entities(repl, string, count=0)

  Return the string obtained by replacing the leftmost non-overlapping occurrences of pattern in string by the replacement repl.

lxml.html.soupparser.parse(file, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None, **bsargs)

  Parse a file into an ElemenTree using the BeautifulSoup parser.

  You can pass a different BeautifulSoup parser through the beautifulsoup keyword, and a diffent Element factory function through the makeelement keyword. By default, the standard `BeautifulSoup` class and the default factory of lxml.html are used.

lxml.html.soupparser.unescape(string)