init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'convertEntities'

Asked Mar 12 '15 at 00:23

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I'm getting the error in title when trying to parse a HTML with soupparser - external interface to the BeautifulSoup HTML parser. This is my code:

from lxml.html.soupparser import fromstring
fromstring("<html><body></body></html>");

Also, since I'm using Anaconda's Python distribution, I loaded BeautifulSoup like this:

import sys, bs4
sys.modules['BeautifulSoup'] = bs4

Error I'm getting is: TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'convertEntities' when soupparser calls bs4 with:

if 'convertEntities' not in bsargs:
  bsargs['convertEntities'] = 'html'
  tree = beautifulsoup(source, **bsargs)

Also, first time I run it within IPython notebook, I get the following warning:

.../python2.7/site-packages/bs4/__init__.py:88: UserWarning: BS4 does not respect the convertEntities argument to the BeautifulSoup constructor. Entities are always converted to Unicode characters.

edited Mar 12 '15 at 00:41

asked Mar 12 '15 at 00:23

Tommz

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What `lxml` version do you have installed? – alecxe Mar 12 '15 at 00:25
When I type in conda search lxml, the star (*) is on 3.4.2 and the dot (.) is at 3.4.0 – Tommz Mar 12 '15 at 00:31
The * is the one that you have installed. – asmeurer Mar 13 '15 at 15:34

__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'convertEntities'

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init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'convertEntities'