It's probably I who have misunderstood both find_all and find_parent.

*sample copy/paste code*

tekst = '<li> <a href="http://ekstrabladet.dk/minsag/article1798780.ece"
class="txt">30/7-10 EB=Hold kft hvor er hun Dum=(Thorning) ?<em>28.
jul</em></a> </li>'
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
soup = BeautifulSoup(tekst)
context = soup.find_all(text=re.compile("Thorning"))

print context

 This returns (I had only expected it to return the string I was looking
for: "Thorning"):
*Output*
[u'30/7-10 EB=Hold kft hvor er hun Dum=(Thorning) ?']

When I look into context:

*sample copy/paste code*

for c in context:
    for i in c.find_parent():
        print "RESULT: %s" % i                                            
          ...

*
*
*Output*
RESULT: 30/7-10 EB=Hold kft hvor er hun Dum=(Thorning) ?
RESULT: <em>28. jul</em>

The first result is exactly what I would expect - but I don't understand
the second result?

Any help appreciated,
Sincerely

Andreas