Beautiful Soup 3.x is Python 2.x only. From the website:

"Beautiful Soup 3 works only under Python 2.x."
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Melvyn Sopacua <mel...@magemana.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm coming accross a few ports that are in the tree as we speak, that do
> not actually install correctly with Python 3.x but aren't marked as 2.7
> only.
>
> There seems to be 2 cases:
> 1. incompatibility in setup.py or related, thus failing in configure
> 2. incompatibility in the code itself, thus failing in byte_compile
>
> The ones in 2 fail with PYDISTUTILS_AUTOPLIST in install, because the
> files cannot be compiled and thus are missing when using the plist.
>
> I've got a few in PRs, few in the queue to become PR's, but perhaps a
> broader effort is needed? I'm willing to help, if an exp-run or
> something similar would generate a list.
>
> PS: A common error is: `except Exception, var:`. This can probably be
> fixed with a REINPLACE_CMD that can be standardized, but so far,
> bringing the port up-to-date with upstream fixes the problem (notable
> exception being www/py-beautifulsoup32).
>
> --
> Melvyn
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