Python - beautifulsoup changes attribute positioning

Question

Hi I am trying to parse html code I am attaching a few line of html

When I load this into beautifulsoup it changes attributes position in alphabetic order like code below

You can see difference initially rel was before href after just loading and write file again order of attributes changes.

Is there any way to prevent this from happening. Thanks

user_10035985 · Answer

From the documentation, you can use custom HTMLFormatter:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from bs4.formatter import HTMLFormatter


txt = '''

'''

class UnsortedAttributes(HTMLFormatter):
    def attributes(self, tag):
        for k, v in tag.attrs.items():
            yield k, v

soup = BeautifulSoup(txt, 'html.parser')

#before HTMLFormatter
print( soup )

print('-' * 80)

#after HTMLFormatter
print( soup.encode(formatter=UnsortedAttributes()).decode('utf-8') )

Prints:




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Python - beautifulsoup changes attribute positioning

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