On 07/03/2014 01:37, teddyb...@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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ok I got this working. now to the next problem.... thanks.
I'm pleased to see that you have a solution. Now, should you wish to
ask further questions, would you please read and action this first
https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to prevent us seeing the
double line spacing above, thanks.
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