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Dirty_Fox
Dirty_Fox

Reputation: 1751

beautifulsoup object is not callable

I want to parse a website. However I have a behavior that I can't really explain : I get the soup through the beautifulSoup website. It is a bs4 element. However when I want to find all the mentionned balise, it says that the type of the element is None. Please find the code below:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2 as web

url = "http://www.stevegtennis.com/men-atp-rankings/2015-7-6/1/all/"
soup = BeautifulSoup(web.urlopen(url).read(),'lxml')
print type(soup)
player1 = soup.findall('tr',class_="row1")

It returns the following error:

TypeError : 'NoneType' object is not callable

Help much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 627

Answers (1)

xnx
xnx

Reputation: 25528

You probably mean:

player1 = soup.find_all('tr',class_="row1")

rather than soup.findall. You don't get a NameError because BeautifulSoup implements __getattr__ to return computed attributes and this returns None if it doesn't have the one you ask for.

Upvotes: 2

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