python - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'string' Couldn't fix this

Question

Trying to work with BeautifulSoup but I'm getting this error:

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'string'

The problem is with this line

_a = _dev.find('a')

Here is my code:

for _dev in devs:
_d = _dev.find('div')
authors.append(_d.text.strip())

_a = _dev.find('a')
if not _a.string is None:
    names.append(_a.text.strip())
    if 'href' in _a.attrs.keys():
        urls.append(_a.get('href')) 

How can I fix this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65894940/attributeerror-nonetype-object-has-no-attribute-string-couldnt-fix-this

Answer 1

The problem is most likely with this line if not _a.string is None:.

If _dev.find('a') does not find what you're looking for it returns None. Since you assigned the value to _a, that means you are calling None.string on that line, which will definitely raise an error.

Change that line to this:

if _a and not _a.string is None: