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

In addition to the accepted answer. You can use a lambda instead of regex:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = """
test python
"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")

print(soup(text="python"))
print(soup(text=lambda t: "python" in t))

Output:

[]
['test python']