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svenwildermann
svenwildermann

Reputation: 650

if-statement with .get-operator in BeautifulSoup

I am trying to get the class of a dl-element. I can print the class (see the first line) but i cant use that result in an if-statement (So "works" is never printed). I guess i am somehow wrong with my syntax. Am i? Believe me that there are lot of "method"-class elements in my tests - see below

 print(child.dl.get('class'))
    if child.dl.get('class')=="['method']":
        print("WORKS!")

This is the output of the first line:

['method']
['method']
['class']
['method']
['method']
['method']
['method']
['describe']

Upvotes: 1

Views: 216

Answers (1)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 473763

child.dl.get('class') returns a list since class is a multi-valued attribute.

Check if method is inside the list:

if 'method' in child.dl.get('class', []):
    print("WORKS!")

Upvotes: 1

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