Re:'Accessing the Tag object from Beautiful Soup' (page 22-25 - Getting Started with Beautiful Soup) So far the code to python27 runs as given in the book, re: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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.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> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- then under the next Sub heading : 'Attributes of a Tag object' text reads : atag = soup_atag.a print (atag['href'])
#output http://www.packtpub.com however when I put this code to the console I get error returns at the first line re:- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> atag = soup_atag.a Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'soup_atag' is not defined >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong or where the text is wrong ? So far the given code has run okay, I have put to the console everything the text tells you to. Thank you for reading. Simon Evans -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
