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KKa
KKa

Reputation: 408

Searching for any combination of strings in data received from BeautifulSoup

So I have the following code:

def searchString(toFind, absolute_path) :
    soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(absolute_path).read())
    text = soup.get_text()
    if toFind in text :
            return True
    return False

Now say that the string is "aBc". The code that I have will return True only if toFind exactly matches a string in text. Is there a way that I can find out if any combination of "aBc" is present in text?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 41

Answers (1)

Oleksandr Soldatov
Oleksandr Soldatov

Reputation: 11

To do case insensitive search, code will look like this:

def searchString(toFind, absolute_path) :
    soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(absolute_path).read())
    text = soup.get_text()
    if toFind.lower() in text.lower():
            return True
    return False

Upvotes: 1

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