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Merge pull request #3565 from cpcloud/read-html-readme
DOC: add bs4/lxml install note to README.rst
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* openpyxl version 1.6.1 or higher, for writing .xlsx files
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* xlrd >= 0.9.0
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* Needed for Excel I/O
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* `lxml <http://lxml.de>`__, or `Beautiful Soup 4 <http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup>`__: for reading HTML tables
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* The differences between lxml and Beautiful Soup 4 are mostly speed (lxml
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is faster), however sometimes Beautiful Soup returns what you might
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intuitively expect. Both backends are implemented, so try them both to
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see which one you like. They should return very similar results.
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* Note that lxml requires Cython to build successfully
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* `boto <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/boto>`__: necessary for Amazon S3 access.
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