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Method Description
The find_parent() method in BeautifulSoup package finds all parents of this Element that matches the given criteria.
Syntax
find_parents( name, attrs, limit, **kwargs)
Parameters
name − A filter on tag name.
attrs − A dictionary of filters on attribute values.
limit − Stop looking after specified number of occurrences have been found.
kwargs − A dictionary of filters on attribute values.
Return Type
The find_parents() method returns a ResultSet consisting of all the parent elements in a reverse order.
Example 1
We shall use following HTML script in this example −
<html>
<body>
<h2>Departmentwise Employees</h2>
<ul id="dept">
<li>Accounts</li>
<ul id=''acc''>
<li>Anand</li>
<li>Mahesh</li>
</ul>
<li>HR</li>
<ol id="HR">
<li>Rani</li>
<li>Ankita</li>
</ol>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Output
ul body html [document]
Note that the name property of BeautifulSoup object always returns [document].
Example 2
In this example, the limit argument is passed to find_parents() method to restrict the parent search to two levels up.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, ''html.parser'')
obj=soup.find(''li'')
parents=obj.find_parents(limit=2)
for parent in parents:
print (parent.name)
Output
ul body
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