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| author | Leonard Richardson <leonard.richardson@canonical.com> | 2012-03-02 10:29:08 -0500 |
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| committer | Leonard Richardson <leonard.richardson@canonical.com> | 2012-03-02 10:29:08 -0500 |
| commit | 74ca8e3f33d44475401be0bc418da83264f91207 (patch) | |
| tree | 329891346e0a4a9fb032666b7b36d42c44d1857f /doc/source/index.rst | |
| parent | e3671b76b089f015ded142966aae0e8cdb572aa6 (diff) | |
Brought the soupselect port up to date.
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1 files changed, 31 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index a9d404a..37d5f07 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1538,15 +1538,27 @@ You can find tags:: Find tags beneath other tags:: - soup.select("p a") - # [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" - id="link1">Elsie</a>, <a class="sister" - href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>, <a - class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>] + soup.select("body a") + # [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>, + # <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>, + # <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>] soup.select("html head title") # [<title>The Dormouse's story</title>] +Find tags `directly` beneath other tags:: + + soup.select("head > title") + # [<title>The Dormouse's story</title>] + + soup.select("p > a") + # [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>, + # <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>, + # <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>] + + soup.select("body > a") + # [] + Find tags by CSS class:: soup.select(".sister") @@ -1590,6 +1602,20 @@ Find tags by attribute value:: soup.select('a[href*=".com/el"]') # [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>] +Match language codes:: + + multilingual_markup = """ + <p lang="en">Hello</p> + <p lang="en-us">Howdy, y'all</p> + <p lang="en-gb">Pip-pip, old fruit</p> + <p lang="fr">Bonjour mes amis</p> + """ + multilingual_soup = BeautifulSoup(multilingual_markup) + multilingual_soup.select('p[lang|=en]') + # [<p lang="en">Hello</p>, + # <p lang="en-us">Howdy, y'all</p>, + # <p lang="en-gb">Pip-pip, old fruit</p>] + This is a convenience for users who know the CSS selector syntax. You can do all this stuff with the Beautiful Soup API. And if CSS selectors are all you need, you might as well use lxml directly, |