Dmitry Arsentiev, 15.08.2012 14:49: > Has anybody already meet the problem like this? - > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTML_PARSE_RECOVER' > > When I run scrapy, I get > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/selector/factories.py", > line 14, in <module> > libxml2.HTML_PARSE_NOERROR + \ > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTML_PARSE_RECOVER' > > > When I run > python -c 'import libxml2; libxml2.HTML_PARSE_RECOVER' > > I get > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<string>", line 1, in <module> > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTML_PARSE_RECOVER' > > How can I cure it? > > Python 2.7 > libxml2-python 2.6.9 > 2.6.11-gentoo-r6
That version of libxml2 is way too old and doesn't support parsing real-world HTML. IIRC, that started with 2.6.21 and got improved a bit after that. Get a 2.8.0 installation, as someone pointed out already. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
