Venus: parse errors on many feeds

[Mary Gardiner]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009, Sam Ruby wrote:
> Is there anything unusual about your installation?  Are others seeing 
> this problem?

It's a little hard to answer such a question (there are 'usual' installs
of Linux distros?)... however...

Having done some further investigation (ie, uninstalling every Python
package that has to do with HTML parsing), it appears to happen only
when the python-beautifulsoup package is installed. Interesting that
this upsets Venus, but not Feed Parser when invoked directly (from the
Venus source).

Systems: Ubuntu 9.04, python 2.6, both systems upgrades rather than
fresh installs. The "install python-beautifulsoup, break Venus" pattern
seems pretty reliable though.

-Mary