Question

Code:

soup=BeautifulSoup(f.read())
data=soup.findAll('node',{'id':'memory'})
print data

Output

[<node id="memory" claimed="true" class="memory" handle="DMI:000E">
<description>
  System Memory
 </description>
<physid>
  e
 </physid>
<slot>
  System board or motherboard
 </slot>
<size units="bytes">
  3221225472
 </size>
<capacity units="bytes">
  3221225472
 </capacity>
</node>]

Now how will I grab the attributes value like the data between tag that is System Memory and so on. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

To get <...>this</...> you should use contents field, so in your case it would be:

print data.description.contents

To get attributes access them as they were a dictionary

print data.size['units']

And to iterate all the tags, use findAll that you already know:

for node in data.findAll(True):
  # do stuff on node