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Hello,

I found no example in the tutorial and other sources.

With a select(), I need to find all the elements that match, and turn the results into a comma-separated string, eg. "Author 1, Author 2, Author 3".

I do find the elements, but fail turning them into to a string:

authors_select = soup.select("a[href*=authors]") #OK
authors = ','.join(authors_select)
authors = ','.join(map(str, soup.select("a[href*=authors]"))) 
authors = ','.join(map(str, soup.select("a[href*=authors]").text)) 
print("Authors=",authors)

Thank you.

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Edit: Found a way

delim = ','
authors = ''
for str in soup.select("a[href*=authors]"):
	authors += (str.text + delim)				
print("Authors=",authors)