[Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib?

[James Y Knight]

On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Vaibhav Mallya wrote:
>> We do have HTMLParser, but that doesn't handle malformed pages  
>> well, and just isn't as nice as BeautifulSoup.
>
> Interesting, given that BeautifulSoup is built on HTMLParser ;-)

I think html5lib would be a better candidate for an imrpoved HTML  
parser in the stdlib than BeautifulSoup.

James