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From: Gabriel Genellina on 14 Dec 2009 17:39
En Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:58:34 -0300, Johann Spies <jspies(a)sun.ac.za>
escribi�:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 07:58:55AM -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote:

>> cell.findAll(text=True) returns a list of all text nodes inside a
>> <td> cell; I preprocess all \n and &nbsp; in each text node, and
>> join them all. lines is a list of lists (each entry one cell), as
>> expected by the csv module used to write the output file.
>
> I have struggled a bit to find the documentation for (text=True).
> Most of documentation for Beautifulsoup I saw mostly contained some
> examples without explaining what the options do. Thanks for your
> explanation.

See
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html#arg-text

> As far as I can see there was no documentation installed with the
> debian package.

BeautifulSoup is very small - a single .py file, no dependencies. The
whole documentation is contained in the above linked page.

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Gabriel Genellina

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