Mission One – upgrade Beautiful Soup
It seems like the first practical piece of software that every agent needs is Beautiful Soup. We often make extensive use of this to extract meaningful information from HTML web pages. A great deal of the world's information is published in the HTML format. Sadly, browsers must tolerate broken HTML. Even worse, website designers have no incentive to make their HTML simple. This means that HTML extraction is something every agent needs to master.
Upgrading the Beautiful Soup package is a core mission that sets us up to do more useful espionage work. First, check the PyPI description of the package. Here's the URL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4. The language is described as Python 3, which is usually ...
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