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.comsites) - added
_debugvariable
: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. It does a first-pass check for wellformedness, and when that fails it sets the 'bozo' bit in the result to
1and immediately terminates. You can revert to the previous behavior by passingdisableWellFormedCheck=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
: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
dictsupport (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.setdefaulttimeoutif available (FazalM) - universal date parsing and normalization (FazalM):
created,modified,issuedare parsed into 9-tuple date format and stored increated_parsed,modified_parsed, andissued_parsed dateis duplicated inmodifiedand vice-versadate_parsedis duplicated inmodified_parsedand vice-versa