BeautifulSoup4: select elements where attributes are not equal to x
There is a method .select()
which allows you to pass CSS selectors as a string:
soup.select('td:not(.foo)')
The above code will return all <td>
tags which are not of the class foo
.
BeautifulSoup
really makes the "soup" beautiful and easy to work with.
You can pass a function in the attribute value:
soup.find_all('td', class_=lambda x: x != 'foo')
Demo:
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> data = """
... <tr>
... <td>1</td>
... <td class="foo">2</td>
... <td class="bar">3</td>
... </tr>
... """
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
>>> for element in soup.find_all('td', class_=lambda x: x != 'foo'):
... print element.text
...
1
3