beautiful soup get class info

[teddybubu at gmail.com]

On Thursday, March 6, 2014 2:58:12 PM UTC-6, John Gordon wrote:
> In <e73d29eb-17bb-472e-bdc4-c38ca904c60f at googlegroups.com> teddy writes:
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> >  <span class="date">October 22, 2011</span>
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> > date1 = soup.span.text
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> > data=soup.find_all(date="value") 
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> Try this:
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> soup.find_all(name="span", class="date")
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> -- 
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> John Gordon         Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to
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>     watch 'House', or a real serial killer to watch 'Dexter'.

I have python 2.7.2 and it does not like class in the code you provided. Now when I take out [ class="date"], this is returned:
   [<span class="date">March 5, 2014</span>, <span class="date">March 5, 2014</span>]
 
This is the code I am using: "data = soup.find_all(name="span") 
print (data)"
1. it returns today's date instead of the actual date
2. returns it twice