what is the return value of BeautifulSoup.find ?

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I run to get some value as score.

score = soup.find('div', attrs={'class' : 'summarycount'})

I run 'print score' to get as follows.

<div class=\"summarycount\">524</div>

I need to extract the number part. I used re module but failed.

m = re.search("[^\d]+(\d+)", score)

TypeError: expected string or buffer

function search in re.py at line 142
return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)

What's the return type of the find function?
How to get the number from the score variable?
Is there any easy way to let BeautifulSoup to return the value(in this case 524) itself?

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