Python beautiful soup arguments
- by scott
Hi
I have this code that fetches some text from a page using BeautifulSoup
soup= BeautifulSoup(html)
body = soup.find('div' , {'id':'body'})
print body
I would like to make this as a reusable function that takes in some htmltext and the tags to match it like the following
def parse(html, atrs):
soup= BeautifulSoup(html)
body = soup.find(atrs)
return body
But if i make a call like this
parse(htmlpage, ('div' , {'id':'body'}")) or like
parse(htmlpage, ['div' , {'id':'body'}"])
I get only the div element, the body attribute seems to get ignored.
Is there a way to fix this?
