[issue32876] HTMLParser raises exception on some inputs

Irit Katriel added the comment: Reopening to discuss what the correct behaviour should be. -- resolution: out of date -> status: closed -> open versions: +Python 3.11 -Python 2.7, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 ___ Python tracker

[issue32876] HTMLParser raises exception on some inputs

Hanno Boeck added the comment: Now the example code raises an AssertionError(). Is that intended? I don't think that's any better. I usually wouldn't expect an HTML parser to raise any error if you pass it a string, but instead to do fault tolerant parsing. And if it's expected that some in

[issue32876] HTMLParser raises exception on some inputs

Irit Katriel added the comment: The error() method was removed in issue31844. -- resolution: -> out of date stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> HTMLParser: undocumented not implemented method ___ Python tracker <

[issue32876] HTMLParser raises exception on some inputs

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[issue32876] HTMLParser raises exception on some inputs

Berker Peksag added the comment: Issue 34480 is another relevant issue. The HTMLParse method doesn't have an error() method and it doesn't raise any exceptions, but its base class still does. I think there is a compatibility problem between html.parser.HTMLParser() and _markupbase.ParserBase

[issue32876] HTMLParser raises exception on some inputs

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[issue32876] HTMLParser raises exception on some inputs

Ezio Melotti added the comment: The HTMLParser has been updated to handle HTML5 and should never fail parsing a document, so if it raises an error it's probably a bug. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue32876] HTMLParser raises exception on some inputs

Hanno Boeck added the comment: Actually BeautifulSoup also uses the python html parser in the backend, so it has the same problem. (It can use alternative backends, but the python parser is the default and they also describe it as "lenient", which I would interpret as "it can handle that".)

[issue32876] HTMLParser raises exception on some inputs

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: The stdlib HTML parser requires correct HTML. To parse broken HTML, as you find in the real world, you need a third-party library like BeautifulSoup. BeautifulSoup is much more complex (about 7-8 times as many LOC) but can handle nearly anything a browser ca

[issue32876] HTMLParser raises exception on some inputs

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