web scraping - Python BeautifulSoup findAll by "class" attribute

Question

I want to do the following code, which is what BS documentation says to do, the only problem is that the word "class" isn't just a word. It can be found inside HTML, but it's also a python keyword which causes this code to throw an error.

So how do I do the following?

soup.findAll('ul', class="score")

Answer 1

Your problem seems to be that you expect find_all in the soup to find an exact match for your string. In fact:

When you search for a tag that matches a certain CSS class, you’re matching against any of its CSS classes:

You can properly search for a class tag as @alKid said. You can also search with the class_ keyword arg.

soup.find_all('ul', class_="score")