Beautiful Soup

An HTML comment inside a <template> tag is treated as a TemplateString, not a Comment

Bug #1913406 reported by kosmos342
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Bug Description

BeautifulSoup breaks html comments inside "template" tag

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> print(BeautifulSoup('<template><!--comment--></template>', 'html.parser'))

actual result:
<template>comment</template>

expected result:
<template><!--comment--></template>

Python: 3.6.12 (installed via pyenv)
OS: macOS 11.1
BeautifulSoup: 4.9.3

Revision history for this message
Leonard Richardson (leonardr) wrote :

This is fixed in revision 599. The underlying cause is that most strings inside a <template> tag are supposed to be instantiated with the TemplateString container class. This was interfering with the Comment container class that's used for HTML comments.

Changed in beautifulsoup:
status: New → Fix Committed
summary: - broken html comments in "template" tag
+ An HTML comment inside a <template> tag is treated as a TemplateString,
+ not a Comment
Revision history for this message
Leonard Richardson (leonardr) wrote :

Released in 4.10.0.

Changed in beautifulsoup:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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