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| author | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2012-06-10 06:33:55 -0400 |
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| committer | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2012-06-10 06:33:55 -0400 |
| commit | 093ec128d5732b02e75df2566c7db2c6e381d766 (patch) | |
| tree | 184f676b44ddc0b8df21bbebd38b60ad85bd3990 /doc/source | |
| parent | 8aabeecd08d6ac154610ed8ea8d3261077814a4d (diff) | |
Made it clear in the doc that Beautiful Soup calls search() on regular expressions, not match()
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/index.rst | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 16c6020..e5e3fbc 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1026,16 +1026,23 @@ A regular expression ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you pass in a regular expression object, Beautiful Soup will filter -against that regular expression. This code finds all the tags whose -names start with the letter "b"; in this case, the <body> tag and the -<b> tag:: +against that regular expression using its ``match()`` method. This code +finds all the tags whose names start with the letter "b"; in this +case, the <body> tag and the <b> tag:: import re - for tag in soup.find_all(re.compile("b.*")): + for tag in soup.find_all(re.compile("^b")): print(tag.name) # body # b +This code finds all the tags whose names contain the letter 't':: + + for tag in soup.find_all(re.compile("t")): + print(tag.name) + # html + # title + .. _a list: A list |