Beautiful soup tag attributes - Dictionary?

[killsto]

The documentation says I can find attributes of tags by using it as a
dictionary. Ex:

product = p.findAll('dd')
print product['id']

However, when I try that python thinks I am slicing it. When I print
product, it works but is a list. I am pretty sure I have the latest
version.

Any ideas?

Reference: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html#The attributes of Tags

 

[Chris Rebert]

The documentation says I can find attributes of tags by using it as a
dictionary. Ex:

product = p.findAll('dd')

..findAll() produces a *list* of tags

The example in the docs is:
firstPTag, secondPTag = soup.findAll('p')

which is using *tuple unpacking*, so it's equivalent to:

tags = soup.findAll('p')
firstPTag = tags[0] #slicing the list to get individual item
secondPTag = tags[1]

So, you either need to use .find() instead of .findAll(), or treat the
result of .findAll() correctly as a list of tags.

Cheers,
Chris
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print product['id']

However, when I try that python thinks I am slicing it. When I print
product, it works but is a list. I am pretty sure I have the latest
version.

Any ideas?

Reference: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html#The attributes of Tags