Package: python-beautifulsoup
Version: 3.0.4-1
Severity: normal
BeautifulSoup seems to use the content-type correctly to parse
entities in the text of an HTML string, but not when they occur inside
attribute strings.
The following program produces the error:
#---- cut here ----
#!/usr/bin/python
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
input1 = '''
<html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<h1>Here is a Latin-1 entity: ®</h1>
</html>
'''
print BeautifulSoup(input1)
input2 = '''
<html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="Description" content="Here is a Latin-1 entity: ®" />
</html>
'''
print BeautifulSoup(input2)
#---- cut here ----
Here's what it produces on my system:
<html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<h1>Here is a Latin-1 entity: ®</h1>
</html>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./bug.py", line 21, in <module>
print BeautifulSoup(input2)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1282, in
__init__
BeautifulStoneSoup.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/BeautifulSoup.py", line 946, in
__init__
self._feed()
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/BeautifulSoup.py", line 971, in _feed
SGMLParser.feed(self, markup)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 99, in feed
self.goahead(0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 133, in goahead
k = self.parse_starttag(i)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 291, in parse_starttag
self.finish_starttag(tag, attrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 340, in finish_starttag
self.handle_starttag(tag, method, attrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 376, in handle_starttag
method(attrs)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1372, in
start_meta
self._feed(self.declaredHTMLEncoding)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/BeautifulSoup.py", line 971, in _feed
SGMLParser.feed(self, markup)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 99, in feed
self.goahead(0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 133, in goahead
k = self.parse_starttag(i)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sgmllib.py", line 285, in parse_starttag
self._convert_ref, attrvalue)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xae in position 0: ordinal
not in range(128)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages python-beautifulsoup depends on:
ii python 2.5.2-1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-support 0.7.7 automated rebuilding support for P
python-beautifulsoup recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
