Question

When I run the following code:

if substr in movie.lowercase:

I get the following error

AttributeError: 'NavigableString' object has no attribute 'lowercase'

movie is from here:

movie = row.td.div.h4.string

I tried to change it to (without success)

movie = row.td.div.h4.string.string

or

movie = unicode(row.td.div.h4.string)

Do you know how to convert NavigableString to normal unicode string with lowercase method?

Answer 1

unicode() doesn’t have .lowercase() method it has .lower().

NavigableString is an instance of unicode. It has all unicode methods.

A case-insensitive search is more complicated then just calling .lower() e.g. full unicode casefolding in Python (case-insensitive search for keywords).