malformed start tag error - Python, BeautifulSoup, and Sipie - Ubuntu 10.04

Question

I just installed python, mplayer, beautifulsoup and sipie to run Sirius on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine. I followed some docs that seem straightforward, but am encountering some iss

Answer 1

Suppose you are using BeautifulSoup4, I found out something in the official document about this: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#installing-a-parser

If you’re using a version of Python 2 earlier than 2.7.3, or a version of Python 3 earlier than 3.2.2, it’s essential that you install lxml or html5lib–Python’s built-in HTML parser is just not very good in older versions.

I tried this and it works well, just like what @Joshua

soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html5lib')