[Tutor] Using Beautiful Soup to find an HTML element by its class attribute

[Sithembewena Lloyd Dube]

Hi everyone,

I am using urllib to scrape an HTML page, and creating an instance of
BeautifulSoup as follows:
*
*from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import re, urllib

doc = urllib.urlopen("
http://weather.za.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:SFXX0010&q=Cape+Town%2c+Western+Cape
").read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(''.join(doc))

#print soup.prettify()
weather_row = soup.findAll('tr', class="rs1")
print weather_row

The call to soup.findAll is failing because "class" is a reserved keyword in
Python. Using BeautifulSoup, how can I find a specific table row whose only
identifying attribute is its CSS class?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,
Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
http://www.lloyddube.com
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