Don't put html, head and body tags automatically, beautifulsoup

Question

using beautifulsoup with html5lib, it puts the html, head and body tags automatically:

BeautifulSoup(\'
FOO
\', \'html5lib\') # => <         


        

Answer 1

Your only option is to not use html5lib to parse the data.

That's a feature of the html5lib library, it fixes HTML that is lacking, such as adding back in missing required elements.