Comment 1 for bug 1645513
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| Leonard Richardson (leonardr) wrote Re: Strange Behavior w/ find_all (name=str, string=str) | #1 |
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The behavior you're seeing is by design.
"Although string is for finding strings, you can combine it with arguments that find tags: Beautiful Soup will find all tags whose .string matches your value for string."
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So you're searching for a tag with a special .string. How does .string work?
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"If a tag’s only child is another tag, and that tag has a .string, then the parent tag is considered to have the same .string as its child."
"If a tag contains more than one thing, then it’s not clear what .string should refer to, so .string is defined to be None."
The first <a> tag contains more than one thing ("Juggernaut" and a <span> tag that contains "Store"), so its .string is defined to be None.
The second <a> tag contains one thing, a <span> tag, which contains one thing, "menu", so its .string is defined to be "menu".