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Hamza
Hamza

Reputation: 167

find_parent() method implementation - BeautifulSoup

find_parent() method is different from find_parents() method because it returns the first immediate parent, unlike find_parents() which returns the entire matching parent tags. But why this code is supposed to be correct?

print(soup.a.string.find_parent("p"))

given : 

   <p>
     <a>"...."</a>
   </p>

p isn't the immediate parent of the string.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3060

Answers (1)

宏杰李
宏杰李

Reputation: 12168

parents means ancestor, find_parent("p") means find the first ancestor which name is p

In [5]: soup.a.string.parents
Out[5]: <generator object parents at 0x7f2ee14558e0>

In [6]: list(_)
Out[6]: 
[<a>"...."</a>, <p>
 <a>"...."</a>
 </p>, <body><p>
 <a>"...."</a>
 </p></body>, <html><body><p>
 <a>"...."</a>
 </p></body></html>, <html><body><p>
 <a>"...."</a>
 </p></body></html>]

In [7]: for a in soup.a.string.parents:
   ...:     if a.name == "p":
   ...:         print(a)
   ...:         break
   ...:     
<p>
<a>"...."</a>
</p>

Upvotes: 2

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