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Dave
Dave

Reputation: 19150

How do I count the number of matching tags using BeautifulSoup?

I'm using Python 3.7 and BeautifulSoup 4. How do I find the number of matching elements when I do a findAll? I have this

# Verify that we didn't see a no results message
no_images_msg = "No very similar images were found on Reddit."
elts = soup.body.findAll(text=re.compile("^.*" + no_images_msg + ".*$"))
if elts.count != 0:
    print("nothing found" + str(elts.count))
    print(str(elts))
    return json.dumps(results)

but the "elts.count != 0" clause always evaluates to true, even though through the print statement, I can see tehre are no elements.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (1)

Sebastien D
Sebastien D

Reputation: 4482

It's quite straightforward:

print (len(elts), 'elements matching')

Upvotes: 1

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