find() not finding anything

[Greg]

Here is an example that replicates the problem I am having:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re

soup = BeautifulSoup('<root><td><label for="pol_nbr">Policy number<br></label></td></root>', 'html.parser')
anchor = soup.find('label', text=re.compile('Policy number'))

But anchor is none. Why is it not the label tag?

[Jim Tittsler]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:20 AM, Greg <greg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But anchor is none. Why is it not the label tag?

I can't help, but I note it does work if the <br> isn't present.
(Which makes me suspect I don't really understand the string=
(formerly text=) argument.)

[Givon]

perhaps, because of the parser.  the <br> tag doesn't have to be closed usually.  but, in xhtml, it does.  either way, the parser will close certain tags.  different parsers handle the closure of open tags differently.  try html5lib as the parser & see what happens.