Beautiful Soup - close tags more promptly?

[Roel Schroeven]

Op 24/10/2022 om 9:42 schreef Roel Schroeven:
> Using html5lib (install package html5lib) instead of html.parser seems 
> to do the trick: it inserts </li> right before the next <li>, and one 
> before the closing </ol> . On my system the same happens when I don't 
> specify a parser, but IIRC that's a bit fragile because other systems 
> can choose different parsers of you don't explicity specify one.

Just now I noticed: when I don't specify a parser, BeautifulSoup emits a 
warning with the parser it selected. In one of my venv's it's html5lib, 
in another it's lxml. Both seem to get a correct result.

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