Subclassing Beautifulsoup Html Parser, Getting Type Error

I wrote a little wrapper using beautifulsoup great html parser recently I tried to improve the code and make all beautifulsoup methods available directly in the wrapper class (inst

Solution 1:

The error is not happening in BeautifulSoup code. Rather, your IDLE is not able to retreive and print the object. Try print str(e) instead.

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Anyway, subclassing BeautifulSoup in your situation may not be the best idea. Do you really want to inherit all of the parsing methods (like convert_charref, handle_pi or error)? Worse, if you override something that BeautifulSoup uses, it may break in a hard-to-find way.

I don't know your situation, but I suggest preferring composition over inheritance (i.e. having a BeautifulSoup object in an attribute). You can easily (if in a slightly hacky way) expose specific methods like this:

classScrape(object):def__init__(self, ...):
        self.soup = ...
        ...
        self.find = self.soup.find