I am using BeautifulSoup to look for user-entered strings on a specific page. For example, I want to see if the string 'Python' is located on the page: http://python.org When I used: find_string = soup.body.findAll(text='Python'), find_string returned [] But when I used: find_string = soup.body.findAll(text=re.compile('Python'), limit=1), find_string returned [u'Python Jobs'] as expected What is the difference between these two statements that makes the second statement work when there are more than one instances of the word to be searched? Continue reading...
