beautiful soup get class info
teddybubu at gmail.com
teddybubu at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 20:37:28 EST 2014
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 4:28:06 PM UTC-6, John Gordon wrote:
> In <ae5b837c-501d-498e-bd3a-3b2c709c42b0 at googlegroups.com> writes:
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> > > soup.find_all(name="span", class="date")
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> > I have python 2.7.2 and it does not like class in the code you provided.
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> Oh right, 'class' is a reserved word. I imagine beautifulsoup has
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> > Now when I take out [ class="date"], this is returned:
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> > [<span class="date">March 5, 2014</span>, <span class="date">March 5, 2014</span>]
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> > This is the code I am using: "data = soup.find_all(name="span")
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> > print (data)"
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> > 1. it returns today's date instead of the actual date
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> > 2. returns it twice
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> Are there two occurrences of '<span class="date">March 5, 2014</span>'
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> in the HTML? If so, then beautifulsoup is doing its job correctly.
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> It might help if you posted the sample HTML data you're working with.
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> John Gordon Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to
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> watch 'House', or a real serial killer to watch 'Dexter'.
ok I got this working. now to the next problem.... thanks.
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