Using BeautifulSoup to search html for string

Question

I am using BeautifulSoup to look for user entered strings on a specific page. For example, I want to see if the string \'Python\' is located on the page: http://python.org<

Answer 1

I have not used BeuatifulSoup but maybe the following can help in some tiny way.

import re
import urllib2
stuff = urllib2.urlopen(your_url_goes_here).read()  # stuff will contain the *entire* page

# Replace the string Python with your desired regex
results = re.findall('(Python)',stuff)

for i in results:
    print i

I'm not suggesting this is a replacement but maybe you can glean some value in the concept until a direct answer comes along.