how to convert string soup to raw string ?

[Fran_3]

I think nilamo ic correct and it is a Beautiful Soup object and not a string.

I Googled "how to search beautiful soup with regx" and found a thread on another forum suggesting Beautiful Soup has a find_all object for regx and the code might look something like the below

import re
>>> soup.find_all(re.compile("(a|div)"))

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nope. problems with this too. I'll research more tonight but if anyone knows how to search a beautiful soup object using regx expression let me know. In particular I'm looking for the following on a web page...

my text 1
misc html code
my text 2

If I use Chrome to copy the page source and put it into a string I can use the regx ...
'search' method to do this and return the above in three groups with
'my text 1' in the first, misc html code in the 2nd, and 'my text 2' in the third
or use the
'findall' method to return the three items in a tuple
but this doesn't work with soup.

thanks for any help and some good code examples :-)