Fix flavor param with incorrect type hint in read_html

pandas-stubs/_typing.pyi

@@ -587,6 +587,9 @@ ParseDatesArg: TypeAlias = (
 # read_xml parsers
 XMLParsers: TypeAlias = Literal["lxml", "etree"]
 
+# read_html flavors
+HTMLFlavors: TypeAlias = Literal["lxml", "html5lib", "bs4"]
+
 # Any plain Python or numpy function
 Function: TypeAlias = np.ufunc | Callable[..., Any]
 # Use a distinct HashableT in shared types to avoid conflicts with

pandas-stubs/io/html.pyi

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ from pandas._typing import (
     HashableT3,
     HashableT4,
     HashableT5,
+    HTMLFlavors,
     ReadBuffer,
     StorageOptions,
 )
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ def read_html(
     io: FilePath | ReadBuffer[str],
     *,
     match: str | Pattern = ...,
-    flavor: str | None = ...,
+    flavor: HTMLFlavors | Sequence[HTMLFlavors] | None = ...,
     header: int | Sequence[int] | None = ...,
     index_col: int | Sequence[int] | list[HashableT1] | None = ...,
     skiprows: int | Sequence[int] | slice | None = ...,

pyproject.toml

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ pre-commit = ">=2.19.0"
 black = ">=23.3.0"
 isort = ">=5.12.0"
 openpyxl = ">=3.0.10"
-tables = { version = ">=3.8.0" , python = "<4"}  # 3.8.0 depends on blosc2 which caps python to <4
+tables = { version = ">=3.8.0",  python = "<4"}  # 3.8.0 depends on blosc2 which caps python to <4
 lxml = ">=4.9.1"
 pyreadstat = ">=1.2.0"
 xlrd = ">=2.0.1"
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ jinja2 = ">=3.1"
 scipy = { version = ">=1.9.1", python = "<3.13" }
 SQLAlchemy = ">=2.0.12"
 types-python-dateutil = ">=2.8.19"
+numexpr = "<2.8.5"  # https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/54449
+beautifulsoup4 = ">=4.12.2"
+html5lib = ">=1.1"
 
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]

tests/test_io.py

@@ -1237,6 +1237,12 @@ def test_read_html():
     with ensure_clean() as path:
         check(assert_type(DF.to_html(path), None), type(None))
         check(assert_type(read_html(path), list[DataFrame]), list)
+        check(assert_type(read_html(path, flavor=None), list[DataFrame]), list)
+        check(assert_type(read_html(path, flavor="bs4"), list[DataFrame]), list)
+        check(assert_type(read_html(path, flavor=["bs4"]), list[DataFrame]), list)
+        check(
+            assert_type(read_html(path, flavor=["bs4", "lxml"]), list[DataFrame]), list
+        )
 
 
 def test_csv_quoting():