Using BeautifulSoup to find a HTML tag that contains certain text

Question

I\'m trying to get the elements in an HTML doc that contain the following pattern of text: #\\S{11}

 this is cool #12345678901 
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Answer 1

With bs4 (Beautiful Soup 4), the OP's attempt works exactly like expected:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup("
 this is cool #12345678901 
")
soup('h2',text=re.compile(r' #\S{11}'))

returns [

this is cool #12345678901

].