libtidy 5.9.14b3

Python binding for the libtidy C library.

libtidy

Python binding for the libtidy C library.

Overview

Python libtidy module is a low-level binding for libtidy C library.

It is an effort to allow python programs full access to the API implemented and provided by the well known *libtidy* library.

PyPI record.

Documentation.

libtidy is a lightweight Python package, based on the ctypes library.

It is fully compliant implementation of the original C libtidy API by implementing whole its functionality in a clean Python instead of C.

libtidy API documentation can be found at:

libtidy API Reference

libtidy uses the underlying libtidy C shared library as specified in libtidy.cfg (included libtidy-X.X.* is the default), but there is also ability to specify it programmatically by one of the following ways:

import libtidy
libtidy.config(LIBTIDY="libtidy C shared library absolute path")
# or
libtidy.config(LIBTIDY=None)  # included libtidy-X.X.* will be used

About original libtidy:

Borrowed from the original website:

libtidy Introduction

libtidy is the library version of HTML Tidy. In fact, Tidy is libtidy; the console application is a very simple C application that links against libtidy. It’s what powers Tidy, mod-tidy, and countless other applications that perform tidying.

Design factors

libtidy is Thread Safe and Re-entrant. Because there are many uses for HTML Tidy - from content validation, content scraping, conversion to XHTML - it was important to make libtidy run reasonably well within server applications as well as client side.

Requirements

• It is a fully independent package.

  All necessary things are installed during the normal installation process.

• ATTENTION: currently works and tested only for Windows.

Installation

Prerequisites:

• Python 3.10 or higher

  • https://www.python.org/

  • with C libtidy 5.9.14 is a primary test environment.

• pip and setuptools

  • https://pypi.org/project/pip/

  • https://pypi.org/project/setuptools/

To install run:

python -m pip install --upgrade libtidy

Development

Prerequisites:

• Development is strictly based on tox. To install it run:

  python -m pip install --upgrade tox

Visit Development page.

Installation from sources:

clone the sources:

git clone https://github.com/karpierz/libtidy.git libtidy

and run:

python -m pip install ./libtidy

or on development mode:

python -m pip install --editable ./libtidy

License

Copyright (c) 2024-2025 Adam Karpierz

Licensed under the HTML Tidy License

https://spdx.org/licenses/HTMLTIDY.html

Please refer to the accompanying LICENSE file.

Authors

• Adam Karpierz <[e-mail]>

Changelog

5.9.14b3 (2025-06-30)

• Better code linting.

• Setup (dependencies) update.

5.9.14b2 (2025-05-15)

• The distribution is now created using ‘build’ instead of ‘setuptools’.

• Setup (dependencies) update (due to regressions in tox and setuptools).

5.9.14b1 (2025-05-05)

• Add support for Python 3.14

• Drop support for Python 3.9 (due to compatibility issues).

• Update readthedocs’s python to version 3.13

• Update tox’s base_python to version 3.13

• Tox configuration is now in native (toml) format.

• Add support for PyPy 3.11

• Drop support for PyPy 3.9

• Removed mixed-cased variants of constants ‘tidyFormatType_*’.

• Removed mixed-cased constants ‘tidyStrings’.

  ‘TidyStrings’ should be used instead.
• Removed mixed-cased constants ‘tidyLocaleMapItem’.

  ‘TidyLocaleMapItem’ should be used instead.
• Added module libtidy.tidy as equivalent of standard tidy.exe.
• The ‘tidy’ script was also created during the installation

  (on Windows as Scripts/tidy.exe) as a convenience.

• Added preliminary tests for libtidy.tidy.

• 100% code linting.

• Copyright year update.

• Setup (dependencies) update.

5.9.14a1 (2025-01-01)

• First release.

0.0.0 (2024-10-10)

• Initial commit.