How to distinguish between two identical tags when using BeautifulSoup?

Question

Hello everyone, how are you? I have a question when using the BeatifulSoup library. When I need to check two identical tags can I distinguish them by the class name? I have tried the following:

soup.select_one("span[span-class-name]").text

However, this command returns me a None object and consequently an attribute error:

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

I've also tried the following, but it's another method that returns a None object:

soup.findAll("span[span-class-name]")

The tag I'm trying to access is as follows:

<span class="span-class-name">Some-String</span>

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

In BeautifulSoup 4 it’s find_all.
First parameter is the element and second is dictionary of attributes.

soup.find_all(”span”, {”class”: ”span-class-name”)

Answer 2

Great thanks a lot! It works perfectly now.