Beautiful Soup – Comparing Objects


Beautiful Soup – Comparing Objects



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As per the beautiful soup, two navigable string or tag objects are equal if they represent the same HTML/XML markup.

Now let us see the below example, where the two <b> tags are treated as equal, even though they live in different parts of the object tree, because they both look like “<b>Java</b>”.

Example


from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
markup = "<p>Learn <i>Python</i>, <b>Java</b>, advanced <i>Python</i> and advanced <b>Java</b>! from Tutorialspoint</p>"
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, "html.parser")
b1 = soup.find(''b'')
b2 = b1.find_next(''b'')
print(b1== b2)

print(b1 is b2)

Output


True
False

In the following examples, tow NavigableString objects are compared.

Example


from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
markup = "<p>Learn <i>Python</i>, <b>Java</b>, advanced <i>Python</i> and advanced <b>Java</b>! from Tutorialspoint</p>"
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, "html.parser")
i1 = soup.find(''i'')
i2 = i1.find_next(''i'')
print(i1.string== i2.string)

print(i1.string is i2.string)

Output


True
False

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