lxml.html.ElementSoup

Package lxml :: Package html :: Module ElementSoup |
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# Module ElementSoup

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Legacy interface to the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.

Functions
convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement=None) Convert a BeautifulSoup tree to a list of Element trees. | source code
parse(file, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None) | source code

Function Details

### convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement=None) | source code
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.