Matching partial ids in BeautifulSoup

Question

I\'m using BeautifulSoup. I have to find any reference to the

tags with id like: post-#.

For example:

Answer 1

You can pass a function to findAll:

>>> print soupHandler.findAll('div', id=lambda x: x and x.startswith('post-'))
[
...
, 
...
]

Or a regular expression:

>>> print soupHandler.findAll('div', id=re.compile('^post-'))
[
...
, 
...
]