Question

I have problem similar to describe here, but a bit more complicated. There are BeautifulSoup objects (store in list) and I want to find some other tags. The information which tags I want to find are store in strings.
I.e.:

a= [...] #(list of BeautifulSoup objects)
next="findNext('span')"

b=[ getattr(c,next).string for c in a]

doesn’t work. What I do wrong.

Answer 1

Looks to me like what you want is:

b = [ eval("c." + next).string for c in a ]

This will call findNext('span') for each element c of the list a and form a list of the results of each findNext call in the list b.