Changes in version 2.7.x ======================== The 2.7 series was a brief but necessary transition towards some of the core ideas in version 3.0. :program:`Ultra-liberal Feed Parser` 2.7.6 was released on January 16, 2004. - fixed bug with :file:`StringIO` importing :program:`Ultra-liberal Feed Parser` 2.7.5 was released on January 15, 2004. - added workaround for malformed DOCTYPE (seen on many ``blogspot.com`` sites) - added ``_debug`` variable :program:`Ultra-liberal Feed Parser` 2.7.4 was released on January 14, 2004. - added workaround for improperly formed <br/> tags in encoded :abbr:`HTML (HyperText Markup Language)` (skadz) - fixed unicode handling in normalize_attrs (ChrisL) - fixed relative :abbr:`URI (Uniform Resource Identifier)` processing for guid (skadz) - added ICBM support - added :file:`base64` support :program:`Ultra-liberal Feed Parser` 2.7.3 was released on January 14, 2004. - reverted all changes made in 2.7.2 :program:`Ultra-liberal Feed Parser` 2.7.2 was released on January 13, 2004. - "Version 2.7.2 of my feed parser, released today, will by default refuse to parse `this feed <http://intertwingly.net/stories/2004/01/12/broken.rss>`_. It does a first-pass check for wellformedness, and when that fails it sets the 'bozo' bit in the result to ``1`` and immediately terminates. You can revert to the previous behavior by passing ``disableWellFormedCheck=1``, but it will print arrogant warning messages to stderr to the effect that anyone who can't create a well-formed :abbr:`XML (Extensible Markup Language)` feed is a bozo and an incompetent fool." `source <http://intertwingly.net/blog/2004/01/12/Scientific-Method#c1074047818>`_ :program:`Ultra-liberal Feed Parser` 2.7.1 was released on January 9, 2004. - fixed bug handling " and ' - fixed memory leak not closing url opener (JohnD) - added dc:publisher support (MarekK) - added admin:errorReportsTo support (MarekK) - :program:`Python` 2.1 ``dict`` support (MarekK) :program:`Ultra-liberal Feed Parser` 2.7 was released on January 5, 2004. - really added support for trackback and pingback namespaces, as opposed to 2.6 when I said I did but didn't really - sanitize :abbr:`HTML (HyperText Markup Language)` markup within some elements - added :file:`mxTidy` support (if installed) to tidy :abbr:`HTML (HyperText Markup Language)` markup within some elements - fixed indentation bug in ``_parse_date`` (FazalM) - use ``socket.setdefaulttimeout`` if available (FazalM) - universal date parsing and normalization (FazalM): ``created``, ``modified``, ``issued`` are parsed into 9-tuple date format and stored in ``created_parsed``, ``modified_parsed``, and ``issued_parsed`` - ``date`` is duplicated in ``modified`` and vice-versa - ``date_parsed`` is duplicated in ``modified_parsed`` and vice-versa
