On Dec 10, 2016 12:15 PM, "Tetteh, Isaac - SDSU Student" > isaac.tet...@jacks.sdstate.edu> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to find the number of times a word occurs on a webpage so I > used bs4 code below > > > > Let assume html contains the "html code" > > soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.pa<http://html.pa>rser") > > print(len(soup.fi<http://soup.fi > >nd_all(string=["Engineering","engineering"]))) > > But the result is different from when i use control + f on my keyboard to > find > > > > Please help me understand why it's different results. Thanks > > I am using Python 3.5 > >
Well, depending on the word you're looking for it's pretty possible that when you execute your code it finds matches inside javascript functions, html/js comments and so on because you're doing a search against the actual html file. If you execute a simple CRTL+F using a web browser it will just look for "visual info" and won't be looking into the actual code. For example, if we go to https://www.python.org/psf/ and do a CRTL+F and search for "Upgrade to a different browser" we will find zero results, on the other hand if we do this inside the view-source we will find one result, because this sentence is inside a commented line. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
