From eb8b240f274fb163abb084957c02c435f9ac1ada Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phillip Cloud Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 11:28:59 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: add bs4/lxml install note to README.rst --- README.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index ea713006c7189..ee728ce7fc7a4 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -90,6 +90,12 @@ Optional dependencies * openpyxl version 1.6.1 or higher, for writing .xlsx files * xlrd >= 0.9.0 * Needed for Excel I/O + * `lxml `__, or `Beautiful Soup 4 `__: for reading HTML tables + * The differences between lxml and Beautiful Soup 4 are mostly speed (lxml + is faster), however sometimes Beautiful Soup returns what you might + intuitively expect. Both backends are implemented, so try them both to + see which one you like. They should return very similar results. + * Note that lxml requires Cython to build successfully * `boto `__: necessary for Amazon S3 access.