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[SOLVED] [BeautifulSoup] Why attribute not found? - Winfried - Mar-11-2023
Hello,
I can't figure out why BS can't find the (first) element that holds the "latitude" attribute:
for item in glob.glob("index.*"):
soup = BeautifulSoup(open(item, 'r',encoding='utf-8'), "lxml")
#OK
url = soup.find("link",{"rel":"canonical"}).get("href")
if url:
print(url)
else:
print("No URL")
"""
<div
id="blah"
latitude="1.23"
longitude="4.56"
>
"""
lat = soup.find("div").get("latitude")
lat = soup.find("div","latitude") #no better
if lat:
print("Found lat=",lat)
else:
print("No lat")Is there something obvious I missed?Thank you.
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Edit: It works if I use the following to find the element:
lat = soup.find("div",{"id":"99"}).get("latitude")
if lat:
print("Found lat=",lat)
else:
print("No lat")