UTIDYLIB(1) uTidylib UTIDYLIB(1) NAME utidylib - uTidylib Documentation The Tidy wrapper. I am the main interface to TidyLib. This package supports processing HTML with Tidy, with all the options that the tidy command line supports. For more information on the tidy options, see the reference. These options can be given as keyword arguments to parse and parseString, by changing dashes (-) to underscores(_). For example: >>> import tidy >>> from __future__ import print_function >>> print(tidy.parseString( ... 'Hello Tidy!', ... output_xhtml=1, add_xml_decl=1, indent=1, tidy_mark=0, ... doctype='transitional' ... )) Hello Tidy! For options like newline and output_encoding, which must be set to one of a fixed number of choices, you can provide either the numeric or string version of the choice; so both tidy.parseString('foo', newline=2) and tidy.parseString('foo', newline='CR') do the same thing. There are no plans to support other features of TidyLib, such as document-tree traversal, since Python has several quality DOM implementations. (The author uses Twisted's implementation, twisted.web.microdom). tidy.parse(filename: str, **kwargs: OPTION_TYPE) -> Document Open and process filename as an HTML file. Returning a processed document object. Parameters o kwargs -- named options to pass to TidyLib for processing the input file. o filename -- the name of a file to process Returns a Document object tidy.parseString(text: bytes | str, **kwargs: OPTION_TYPE) -> Document Use text as an HTML file. Returning a processed document object. Parameters o kwargs -- named options to pass to TidyLib for processing the input file. o text -- the string to parse Returns a Document object class tidy.Document(options: OPTION_DICT_TYPE) Document object as returned by parseString() or parse(). get_errors() -> list[ReportItem] Return list of errors as a list of ReportItem. gettext() -> str Unicode text for output returned by tidy. getvalue() -> bytes Raw string as returned by tidy. write(stream: BinaryIO) -> None Parameters stream -- Writable file like object. Writes document to the stream. class tidy.ReportItem(err: str) Error report item as returned by tidy. col: int | None Column where error was fired (can be None) err: str Whole error message as returned by tidy full_severity: str Full severity string line: int | None Line where error was fired (can be None) message: str Error message itself severity: str D, W, E or C indicating severity exception tidy.TidyLibError Generic Tidy exception. exception tidy.InvalidOptionError Exception for invalid option. exception tidy.OptionArgError Exception for invalid parameter. To use uTidylib, you need to have HTML tidy library installed. Check <> for instructions how to obtain it. Once you have installed the library, install uTidylib: pip install uTidylib You are welcome to contribute on GitHub, we use it for source code management, issue tracking and patches submission, see <>. The testsuite can be exececuted using pytest: pytest tidy To build the doc, just run: make -C docs html This requires that you have Sphinx installed. The API documentation will be built in the docs/_build/html/ directory. The MIT License Copyright (c) 2003 Cory Dodt <> Copyright (c) 2014-2018 Michal Cihar <> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. 1.0.0 o Modernized packaging. o Updated supported Python versions. o Homebrew compatiblity. 0.10 o Dropped support for Python 3.7. o Added support for Python 3.12. o Added type hints. o Improved documentation. o Always call CleanAndRepair after parsing. o Fixed handling char_encoding argument. 0.9 o Dropped support for Python 3.6. o Added support for Python 3.10 and 3.11. o Compatibility with html-tidy 5.8.0. o Added support for specifying library full path using TIDY_LIBRARY_FULL_PATH. o Added getTidyVersion to get libtidy version. 0.8 o Code cleanups. o Fixed typo in 0.7 release notes. 0.7 o Dropped support for Python 2. 0.6 o First official release PyPI. 0.5 o Fixed compatibility with Debian patched libtidy5deb1. 0.4 o Compatibility with html-tidy 5.6.0. o Added support for Python 3. 0.3 o Initial release under new maintainer. o Incorporated Debian patches. o Various compatiblity fixes (eg. with 64-bit machines). o Various code cleanups. o New test suite. o New documentation. o Support for new HTML 5 tidy library. This is fork of the original uTidylib with permission with original author. Originally it incorporated patches from Debian and other distributions, now it also brings compatibility with recent html-tidy versions and works with Python 3. The original source code is still available at . o Index <> o Module Index <> o Search Page <> Author uTidylib contributors Copyright uTidylib contributors 1.0 January 9, 2026 UTIDYLIB(1)