B-Soup: broken iterator, tag a keyword?

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Brendan wrote:
> I have the following using Beautiful Soup:
> 
> soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
> tags = soup.findAll(href=re.compile("/MER_FRS_L2_Canada/MER_FRS_\S
> +gz"))
> for tag in tags:
>     print tag['href']
>     print tag.parent.nextSibling.string
>     print tag.parent.nextSibling.nextSibling.string
>     print tag.parent.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.string
>     print
> tag.parent.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.contents[0].string

It's pretty impossible that the problem is the name "tag" here. But since you
didn't state what the actual problem is, let me suggest not to parse markup
with regular expressions in general (which BS does). Use a real XML/HTML
parser for that. lxml will work just fine (and it also has a nicer API).

http://codespeak.net/lxml/

Stefan