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Ehvince
Ehvince

Reputation: 18395

beautifulsoup, html5lib: module object has no attribute _base

When I updated my packages I have this new error:

class TreeBuilderForHtml5lib(html5lib.treebuilders._base.TreeBuilder):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '_base'

I tried to update beautifulsoup, with no more result. How can I fix that?

Upvotes: 68

Views: 45189

Answers (8)

Alex Moore-Niemi
Alex Moore-Niemi

Reputation: 3372

I found trying to switch versions did not work for me. In the end, based on this issue I edited the relevant file at ~/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/bs4/builder/_html5lib.py for my purposes.

Upvotes: 0

Ekta kumar Varma
Ekta kumar Varma

Reputation: 71

Just install html5lib using this because if you install the normal way then you have to spider using python2.

sudo pip3 install html5lib==0.9999999

Upvotes: 0

kavya
kavya

Reputation: 1

This command solved the problem for me:

 sudo pip install html5lib==0.9999999

Upvotes: 0

recurseuntilfor
recurseuntilfor

Reputation: 2411

The downgrade to html5lib 1.0b8 in @Bhavuk answer works but courses a version issue with bleach.

The solution for me was with a change of version of bleach to be compatible with the new version of html5lib

pip install --upgrade bs4
pip install --upgrade bleach==1.4.2
pip install --upgrade html5lib==1.0b8

Python version 3.5

Upvotes: 8

Ehvince
Ehvince

Reputation: 18395

edit nov, 2017: it seems this doesn't work any more

Finally found out, a search engine didn't throw anything but it's referenced on beautifulsoup's issue tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/+bug/1603299

it works back with html5lib v0.9999999 (7 nines)

"html5lib<=0.9999999"

Upvotes: 20

Bhavuk
Bhavuk

Reputation: 287

This is an issue with upstream package html5lib: https://bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/+bug/1603299 To fix, force downgrade to an older version:

pip install --upgrade html5lib==1.0b8

Upvotes: 27

Blaszard
Blaszard

Reputation: 31985

The same problem occurred on me. I don't know what you were trying to do, but it occurred on me when I tried to read XML file in pandas, using pd.read_html().

The problem is fixed by upgrading all of beautifulsoup4, html5lib, and lxml, like:

pip install bs4
pip install html5lib
pip install lxml

And restart your Python environment and now it is working.

Upvotes: 3

MattTriano
MattTriano

Reputation: 1542

I upgraded beautifulsoup4 and html5lib and it resolved the issue.

pip install --upgrade beautifulsoup4
pip install --upgrade html5lib

Upvotes: 117

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