Quick reference

You can view the following references to get an overview of creating the following objects:

  • BeautifulSoup
    • soup = BeautifulSoup(string)
    • soup = BeautifulSoup(string,features="xml") #for xml
  • Tag
    • tag = soup.tag #accessing a tag
    • tag.name #Tag name
    • tag['attribute'] #Tag attribute
  • NavigableString
    • soup.tag.string #get Tag's string

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