Hi Peter Otten re: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no assignment
soup_atag = whatever but there is one to atag. The whole session should when you omit the offending line > atag = soup_atag.a or insert soup_atag = soup before it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import urllib2 >>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup >>> html_atag = """<html><body><p>Test html a tag example</p> ... <a href="http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> ... <a href="http;//www.packtpub.com/books'.Books</a> ... </body> ... </html>""" >>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html_atag,'lxml') >>> atag = soup.aprint(atag) >>> atag = soup.a >>> print(atag) <a href="http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> <a href=" http=""> </a> >>> type(atag) <class 'bs4.element.Tag'> >>> tagname = atag.name >>> print tagname a >>> atag.name = 'p' >>> print (soup) <html><body><p>Test html a tag example</p> <p href="http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> <a href=" http=""> </p></body> </html> >>> atag.name = 'p' >>> print(soup) <html><body><p>Test html a tag example</p> <p href="http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> <a href=" http=""> </p></body> </html> >>> atag.name = 'a' >>> print(soup) <html><body><p>Test html a tag example</p> <a href="http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> <a href=" http=""> </a></body> </html> >>> soup_atag = soup >>> atag = soup_atag.a >>> print (atag['href']) http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> <a href= >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you. Yours Simon. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
