Simon Evans wrote: > Re:'Accessing the Tag object from Beautiful Soup' (page 22-25 - Getting > Started with Beautiful Soup) So far the code to python27 runs as given in > the book, re: - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> html_atag = """<html><body><p>Test html a tag example</p> > ... <a href="http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> > ... <a href="http;//www.packtpub.com/books'.Books</a> > ... </body> > ... </html>""" >>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html_atag,'lxml') >>>> atag = soup.a >>>> print(atag) > <a href="http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> > <a href=" http=""> > </a> >>>> type(atag) > <class 'bs4.element.Tag'> >>>> >>>> tagname = atag.name >>>> print tagname > a >>>> atag.name = 'p' >>>> print (soup) > <html><body><p>Test html a tag example</p> > <p href="http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> > <a href=" http=""> > </p></body> > </html> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > then under the next Sub heading : 'Attributes of a Tag object' > text reads :
There is no assignment soup_atag = whatever but there is one to atag. The whole session should when you omit the offending line > atag = soup_atag.a or insert soup_atag = soup before it. > print (atag['href']) > > #output > http://www.packtpub.com > > however when I put this code to the console I get error returns at the > first line re:- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> atag = soup_atag.a > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > NameError: name 'soup_atag' is not defined >>>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong or where the text is wrong ? > So far the given code has run okay, I have put to the console everything > the text tells you to. Thank you for reading. > Simon Evans -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
