child within element BeatifulSoup code example

Example 1: children beautiful soup

li = soup.find('li', {'class': 'text'})
children = li.findChildren("a" , recursive=False)
for child in children:
    print child

Example 2: get only parent child elements beautiful soup

>>> soup.select('li.test > a')
[<a>link1</a>, <a>link3</a>]