You never call
Then can split on
text,if you do text inside pre tag will get a \n for each line.Then can split on
\n and take out line you want.from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = '''\
<html>
<body>
<pre>
Text in a pre element
is displayed in a fixed-width
XYZ57 ABCD 141800
font, and it preserves
both spaces and
line breaks
</pre>
</body>
</html>'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(html,'lxml')
y = soup.find('pre')
# Call text
text = y.text
my_line = ''
for line in text.split('\n'):
if line.startswith('XYZ'):
my_line += line
print(my_line)Output:XYZ57 ABCD 141800