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python-beautifulsoup4


Information about the package, python-beautifulsoup4, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The python-beautifulsoup4 package is designed for, HTML/XML parser for quick-turnaround applications like.


Package Name:

python-beautifulsoup4

Summary:

HTML/XML parser for quick-turnaround applications like

Description:

Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful: Beautiful Soup won't choke if you give it bad markup. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree. Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8. Beautiful Soup parses anything you give it. 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.

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

4.1.3

Release:

3.el6

Size:

134 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

MIT



Handy Yum Commands for python-beautifulsoup4


Control the python-beautifulsoup4 package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install python-beautifulsoup4

This command will install python-beautifulsoup4 on the server.

yum remove python-beautifulsoup4

This command will un-install python-beautifulsoup4 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove python-beautifulsoup4, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove python-beautifulsoup4

This command will un-install python-beautifulsoup4 on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove python-beautifulsoup4 when using the -y flag.

yum update python-beautifulsoup4

This command will update python-beautifulsoup4 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove python-beautifulsoup4, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update python-beautifulsoup4

This command will update python-beautifulsoup4 to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove python-beautifulsoup4 when using the -y flag.

yum info python-beautifulsoup4

This command will show you core information about the python-beautifulsoup4 package.

yum deplist python-beautifulsoup4

This command will show you the dependencies for python-beautifulsoup4. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update python-beautifulsoup4

This command will check if there is an update waiting on python-beautifulsoup4. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.