Beautiful Soup and extracting a div and its contents by ID

Question

soup.find(\"tagName\", { \"id\" : \"articlebody\" })

Why does this NOT return the

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tags

Answer 1

The Id property is always uniquely identified. That means you can use it directly without even specifying the element. Therefore, it is a plus point if your elements have it to parse through the content.

divEle = soup.find(id = "articlebody")