beautifulsoup, html5lib: module object has no attribute _base

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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?

score 117 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 06 '16 at 01:03

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I upgraded beautifulsoup4 and html5lib and it resolved the issue.

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

answered Aug 06 '16 at 01:03

MattTriano

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Confirmed that this worked to get the `sudo pip install spry` to work properly without errors February 2017. – james-see Feb 04 '17 at 20:35
I required `--force` – Jun 24 '18 at 15:57

score 27 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 15 '16 at 10:01

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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

answered Dec 15 '16 at 10:01

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Ehvince · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-29T22:16:01.363

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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"

edited Nov 29 '17 at 22:16

answered Jul 19 '16 at 00:18

Ehvince

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This fixes a similar bug in kaggle-cli too – Jim May 21 '17 at 08:54
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(on W7).Unfortunately i tried both downgrading and upgrading.I also tried to seta virtual env using Python 2.7. Nothing worked so far, basically I am stuck on using beautifulsoup library – Carmine Tambascia Sep 28 '17 at 16:57
I just overcome this error simply checking that Pycharm was using the wrong interpreter in my virtual env. Indeed in the python idle and Powershell I did not faced such error – Carmine Tambascia Sep 28 '17 at 20:10
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`html5lib<=0.9999999` has a security vulnerability and should not be used any longer. Source: https://www.sourceclear.com/registry/security/cross-site-scripting-xss-/python/sid-3068 – bzmw Nov 20 '17 at 19:36
This is the command to fix it: sudo pip install html5lib==0.9999999 – DataYoda Jul 17 '18 at 07:53

recurseuntilfor · Answer 4 · 2018-04-25T23:23:04.373

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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

edited Apr 25 '18 at 23:23

answered Apr 22 '18 at 06:20

recurseuntilfor

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For anaconda, I did `conda install html5lib==0.9999999`, which downgraded bleach to 1.5.0 but it worked – prusswan Sep 17 '18 at 11:22

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 11 '16 at 10:22

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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.

answered Sep 11 '16 at 10:22

Blaszard

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I needed to add `-U` to upgrade existing installations in some cases, but this worked for me. – Jonathan Stray Apr 12 '18 at 23:22

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 24 '19 at 17:57

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This command solved the problem for me:

 sudo pip install html5lib==0.9999999

answered Jun 24 '19 at 17:57

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score 0 · Answer 7 · edited May 18 '20 at 04:46

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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

edited May 18 '20 at 04:46

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answered May 17 '20 at 15:38

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Nov 04 '20 at 22:10

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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.

answered Nov 04 '20 at 22:10

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beautifulsoup, html5lib: module object has no attribute _base

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