[Python] How to find direct children of element in lxml

I found an object with specific class:

THREAD = TREE.find_class('thread')[0]


Now I want to get all <p> elements that are its direct children.

I tried:

THREAD.findall("p")

THREAD.xpath("//div[@class='thread']/p")


But all of those returns all <p> elements inside this <div>, no matter if that <div> is their closest parent or not.

How can I make it work?

Edit:

Sample html:

<div class='thread'>
<p> <!-- 1 -->
<!-- Can be some others <p> objects inside, which should not be counted -->
</p>
<p><!-- 2 --></p>
</div>
<div class='thread'>
<p>[...]</p>
<p>[...]</p>
</div>


script should find two objects <p>, which are children of THREAD. I should receive list of two objects, marked as "1" and "2" in comments in sample HTML.

Edit 2:

Yet another clarification, since people get confused:

THREAD is some object stored in variable, can be any html element. I want to find <p> objects that are direct children of THREAD. Those <p>'s can not be outside THREAD or inside any element that's also inside THREAD.

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