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ChickenRun
ChickenRun

Reputation: 271

Beautiful soup python 3 css troubles

import bs4
import requests
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'}
url = 'http://twitter.com'
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
p = bs4.BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')
p.js-signup

When I put p.js-signup into the python shell it returns 

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#29>", line 1, in <module>
p.js-signup
NameError: name 'signup' is not defined

I am quite new to this, so i'm not sure what I've done wrong, other css things that don't have '-' in them work fine

Upvotes: 1

Views: 62

Answers (2)

Augustin Laville
Augustin Laville

Reputation: 526

With python, p.js-signup is the opration p.js minus signup. It raises the error you have becaus signup does not exists.

NameError: name 'signup' is not defined

If you want to get the element <js-lookup> you have to use find() as explained in the documentation.

If js-lookup is a CSS class: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#searching-by-css-class

Upvotes: 2

ikkuh
ikkuh

Reputation: 4603

The code p.js-signup means the following:

p.js - signup

So you are trying to subtract signup from p.js, but there is no variable signup in your code and that is what the error message is telling you.

Upvotes: 2

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