Quick reference

You can take a look at the following references to get an overview of the code present in this chapter:

  • soup = BeautifulSoup(html_markup,"lxml",from_encoding="latin-1"). Here, from_encoding is used while creating BeautifulSoup to specify the document encoding.
  • soup.original_encoding: This gives the original encoding detected by Beautiful Soup.
  • The output content in specific encoding is listed using the following methods:
    • soup.prettify()
    • soup.encode()

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