Installing lxml
https://lxml.de/installation.htmlWhere to get it. lxml is generally distributed through PyPI.. Most Linux platforms come with some version of lxml readily packaged, usually named python-lxml for the Python 2.x version and python3-lxml for Python 3.x. If you can use that version, the quickest way to install lxml is to use the system package manager, e.g. apt-get on Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install python3-lxml
Installing lxml
lxml.de › installationpip install lxml If you are not using pip in a virtualenv and want to install lxml globally instead, you have to run the above command as admin, e.g. on Linux: sudo pip install lxml To install a specific version, either download the distribution manually and let pip install that, or pass the desired version to pip: pip install lxml==3.4.2
BeautifulSoup Parser - lxml
lxml.de › elementsoupWhen using BeautifulSoup from lxml, however, the default is to use Python's integrated HTML parser in the html.parser module. In order to make use of the HTML5 parser of html5lib instead, it is better to go directly through the html5parser module in lxml.html. A very nice feature of BeautifulSoup is its excellent support for encoding detection which can provide better results for real-world HTML pages that do not (correctly) declare their encoding.
BeautifulSoup Parser - lxml
https://lxml.de/elementsoup.htmllxml interfaces with BeautifulSoup through the lxml.html.soupparser module. It provides three main functions: fromstring () and parse () to parse a string or file using BeautifulSoup into an lxml.html document, and convert_tree () to convert an existing BeautifulSoup tree into a list of top-level Elements. Contents Parsing with the soupparser