Matching partial ids in BeautifulSoup

You can pass a function to findAll:

>>> print soupHandler.findAll('div', id=lambda x: x and x.startswith('post-'))
[<div id="post-45">...</div>, <div id="post-334">...</div>]

Or a regular expression:

>>> print soupHandler.findAll('div', id=re.compile('^post-'))
[<div id="post-45">...</div>, <div id="post-334">...</div>]

Since he is asking to match "post-#somenumber#", it's better to precise with

import re
[...]
soupHandler.findAll('div', id=re.compile("^post-\d+"))

soupHandler.findAll('div', id=re.compile("^post-$"))

looks right to me.

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