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Asked: 2026-06-15T22:02:39+00:00

I have this string in the href of a tag – member.php?mode=&g=user&start=100 Now my

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I have this string in the href of a tag –

member.php?mode=&g=user&start=100

Now my BeautifulSoup is parsing it as –

memberlist.php?mode=&g=user&start=100

which is not giving the desired page –

what is this & and how can i fix that

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s a special string that represents an ampersand character ie “&”.

    EDIT: I’ve just tried to reproduce this using code from your other SO question and it works correctly.

    >>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> html_doc = """
... <html><head><title>Test HTML page</title></head>
... <p class="title"><b>Test HTML page</b></p>
...
... <p class="links">Links:
... <a href="./member.php?mode=&amp;g=user&start=100">Next</a>
... </p>
... </html>
... """

>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc)
>>> mylinks = soup.find_all("a", text="Next")
>>> print mylinks
[<a href="./member.php?mode=&amp;g=user&amp;start=100">Next</a>]

    What version of Beautiful Soup are you using?

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