how to use beautiful soup to find all id's having a specific string code example

Example 1: how to use beautiful soup to find all id's having a specific string

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

Example 2: how to use beautiful soup to find all id's having a specific string

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