You can treat a tag like a dictionary to obtain a specific attribute:
import BeautifulSoup as bs
html = "<div x='a' y='b' z='c'>hello</div>"
doc = bs.BeautifulSoup(html)
div = doc.find("div")
print div
print div["x"]
--output:--
a
But you can't iterate over a tag to get all the attributes:
import BeautifulSoup as bs
html = "<div x='a' y='b' z='c'>hello</div>"
doc = bs.BeautifulSoup(html)
div = doc.find("div")
for key in div:
print key, div[key]
--output:--
hello
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test1.py", line 9, in ?
print key, div[key]
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/
python2.4/site-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 430, in __getitem__
return self._getAttrMap()[key]
KeyError: u'hello'
How can you get all the attributes when you don't know the attribute
names ahead of time?
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