Yup, but all of the stuff in the Quick Start section of http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/d

Yup, but all of the stuff in the Quick Start section of http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ has more or less close equivalents in lxml.html. That being said, I think it's great that he's still maintaining BS, and porting it to Python 3 in particular - it keeps existing code working and will allow more people to make the switch. And a responsible and committed maintainer is good advertising for a package in itself, of course.