On Thursday, March 6, 2014 4:28:06 PM UTC-6, John Gordon wrote: > In <ae5b837c-501d-498e-bd3a-3b2c709c4...@googlegroups.com> writes: > > > > > > soup.find_all(name="span", class="date") > > > > > I have python 2.7.2 and it does not like class in the code you provided. > > > > Oh right, 'class' is a reserved word. I imagine beautifulsoup has > > a workaround for that. > > > > > Now when I take out [ class="date"], this is returned: > > > [<span class="date">March 5, 2014</span>, <span class="date">March 5, > > 2014</span>] > > > > > > This is the code I am using: "data = soup.find_all(name="span") > > > print (data)" > > > 1. it returns today's date instead of the actual date > > > 2. returns it twice > > > > Are there two occurrences of '<span class="date">March 5, 2014</span>' > > in the HTML? If so, then beautifulsoup is doing its job correctly. > > > > It might help if you posted the sample HTML data you're working with. > > > > -- > > John Gordon Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to > > watch 'House', or a real serial killer to watch 'Dexter'.
ok I got this working. now to the next problem.... thanks. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list